76 THE WEALTH OF THE SEA 



warehouses, where it is pressed into bales of one 

 hundred pounds each and sold for use as a substi- 

 tute for hair. 



When one considers the wide variety of uses to 

 which seaweeds are put and the large number of 

 valuable products made from these marine plants, 

 it is a wonder that larger quantities of these algae 

 are not utiHzed. Perhaps, as the world grows more 

 crowded, we will look more and more to the ocean 

 for food and raw material for our manufactures. 



