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manufacture of a valuable fish guano, have been already 

 turned to account to their full extent. 



The interesting statistical statements regarding this question, 

 contained in an excellent report of Hon. S. L. Goodale, of 

 Saco, Maine, — "Our Fish Fertilizers," 1863, — and the valua- 

 4)le communications of an earlier date of Prof. S. W. Johnson, 

 of New Haven, Conn., on the manufacture and quality of fish 

 guano in Europe, have not yet received that careful consider- 

 ation which they deserve. 



Abstract from the Annual Bejjort of the 12ih of January, 1876, of the 

 United States Menhaden Oil and Ouano Association for the year 1874 

 to 1875. 



» 1874,-1,642,927 barrels of fish; 1875,-1,877,676 barrels of fish. 



