show them better methods and better implements which 

 will save them from groping in the dark and will prevent 

 waste of time and disappointment. I shall probably ask 

 Government for a small further development shortly. 



8. I am negotiating at Ratnagiri to hire one or two 

 of the well-known Ratnagiri sailing boats in order to 

 begin deep- sea operations under my own control ; they 

 will ordinarily bring me daily supplies of fish but 

 I shall be able to insist on the gutting and cleaning 

 of all dead fish on board as soon as caught, and the 

 keeping in li\e chests of certain classes of fish taken 

 alive, so that on coming ashore dead fish will not only 

 be as free as possible from taint but will be actually 

 ready for the curing tub, etc., while the live fish will be 

 available for any process. My great trouble at Ennore, 

 apart from the paucity of fish, has been that the fish 

 have been caught an indefinite time, not less than 2 but 

 perhaps as long as 6 or 7 hours ; hence experiments 

 were vitiated because some fish were fairly good and 

 some in the early stages of taint by the time I could 

 deal with them ; this will be avoided by the arrange- 

 ments now beoinnino- at Cannanore. Moreover, in 

 January and February these Ratnagiri boats are 

 accustomed to fish in the deep sea for shark, etc., and 

 stav out a week at a time ; I intend to utilize this habit 



" to introduce the new Salt rules for taking duty-free salt 

 to sea. At present these boats (which seldom come so 

 far south as Cannanore) take out duty-paid salt which, 

 being expensive, is taken and used in very scanty 

 quantity ; hence the catch by the end of the week is apt 

 to be putrid, and it is evidently these to which Mr. H. S. 

 Thomas alluded when he stated that the catches usually 

 come ashore putrid and full of maggots. Under my 

 control these boats will take out plenty of salt and salt 

 down their catches properly, so that not only will the 

 product require little handling when it arrives on shore 

 but it will be untainted. 



9. In establishing new or developing old industries 

 each advance usually means the collateral advance of 

 some connected industry. The present is no exception, 

 but I will not further deal with this point save to say 

 that successful canning will necessitate an improved 

 vegetable oil industry, and successful curing, especially 

 pickling, means a large wooden barrel and box industry. 



