6. If you graze cattle near your great waters, they will delight to come and stand in the water; and it conduceth much to the thrift of your cattle, as well as the feed of your fish, which is much supplied by the dunging of the cattle; and therefore it is good to have ponds in cow-pastures and grazing grounds.

As to the sowing of oats in the bottom of a pond, observe to dry your great water once in three, or at most four years, and that at the end of January, or beginning of March; which, if not a very unreasonable year, will be time enough. After Michaelmas following, you may put in a very great stock; and thin them in following years, as the feed will decline.

The Conclusion.

Thus I have given, as short and intelligibly as conveniently I could, the best of my knowledge, contracted by twenty years practice and experience, of fish and waters: and if I am so happy thereby, to contribute in the least to the satisfaction or diversion of my friends, it will extremely content, if not encourage me to add somewhat farther concerning the nature of the several sorts of fish I deal in, the ways of taking them, of nets, angling, engines for clearing waters, and other particularities that I have proved. In the mean time, they may command these as myself, both being alike open, considerable, and at their service.

INDEX.

The BarbelPage [5]
Carp[7]
The Chub[11]
The Cod Fish[13]
The Haddock[14]
The Herring[16]
The Mackarel[20]
The Mullet[21]
The Pearch, or Perch,[23]
The Pike[24]
The Roach[25]
The Shad[26]
The Tench[28]
The Trout[29]
The Whiting[31]
A Discourse of Fish and Fish Ponds[33]
Of the Situation and Disposition of the Principal Waters[35]
Of the Manner of making and raising Pond Heads[33]
The Dimensions of Pond Heads[34]
Of securing your Banks[35]
Of Sluices[37]
Of the Manner of Working to raise a Pond Head[39]
Of Auxiliary Waters[42]
Of Stews[43]
Of Moats[45]
Of other Auxiliary Waters[49]
The Course of laying the great Waters dry[51]
Of Breeding of Fish[53]
The Manner of Stocking Waters[55]
Of the Manner of feeding Fish[60]
Of disposing your Increase of Fish[64]
Of fishing for Carriage[66]
Of Nurseries to Ponds and Fish[69]
Of Frosts, and the Way to save the Fish in them[ib.]
Of the ordinary Benefits and Improvements by Fish[73]
Of Benefits besides the main Design[76]
The Conclusion[78]

FINIS.