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increased by tbe experience of age, tbe following directions, 
extracted from Daniels’ “Eural Sports,” may be found useful: — 
“In May or early in June, wbicli is the chief time of their 
spawning, and when they always resort to the weeds, let a 
green silk setting net, without leads, and only one float at each 
extremity, be dropped in the clear water, and drive with the 
wind to the outside edge of the weeds; then go in a boat 
through the weeds between the net and the shore; the Carp 
will fly at the noise to the deep water, and be taken with the 
net, on their entrance into it, and which from its colour the 
Carp does not discover in his haste to escape from the boat.” 
We may suppose that a net of very flne twine of the proper 
tint, although not of silk, will be equally successful. 
The formation of a pond is described by the Hon. Roger 
North, and is here given because it also conveys some portion 
of the history of the Carp, as it was then generally understood: 
— ‘‘Tt is the most valuable of all kinds of flsh for stocking ponds, 
because of its quick growth and great increase. If the feeding 
and breeding of this fish were more understood and practised, 
the advantages resulting would be very great; and a fishpond 
would become as valuable an article as a garden. The sale of 
Carp makes a considerable part of the revenue of the principal 
nobility and gentry in Prussia, Pomerania, Brandenburg, Saxony, 
Mecklenburg, Bohemia, and Holstein. Particular attention should 
be paid to the soil, water, and situation of a Carp pond; the 
best kind arc those which are surrounded by the finest pasture 
or corn-fields, with a rich black mould, and soft springs on the 
spot, or other running water that is neither too cold or 
impregnated with acid, calcareous, selenitic, or other feraneous, 
mineral particles. The water may be softened by exposing it 
to the air or sun in a reservoir, or by forming an open channel 
for it some distance from the pond; they should be exposed to 
the influence of the sun, and sheltered from the eastern and 
northerly winds. 
“By experience it is found convenient to have three kinds of 
ponds for Carp, namely, the spawning pond, the nursery, and 
the main pond; the first pond must be cleared of all other 
kind of fish, especially those of the rapacious kind, such as the 
perch, pike, cel, and trout, the water-beetle, and also of newts 
or lizards. It should be exposed to sun and air, and be supplied 
