74 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Fiuuiug-knives. 



29400. Halibut-finniug knife. Alex. McCurdy, Gloucester, Mass. 

 29412. Halibut-fiuuing knife. Capt. E. L. Rowe, Gloucester, Mass. 



Choppiug-knives. ' 



294013. Bait-cleaver (used in halibut fishing). Alex. McCurdy, Gloucester, 



Mass. 

 3266.^. Cod-bait liuife. Gloucester, Mass. U. S. Fisli Commission. 

 32664. Bait-cleaver, " " 



Clieek-kuives. 



29438. Codfish cheek-knife. Alex. McCurdy, Gloucester, Mass. 



Throating-kiiives. 



22669. Cod-throater (single edge). Gloucester, Mass. U. S. Fish Commission. 



22670. Cod-throater (double edge). " " 



Fish-knives (for general nse). 



23159. Fish-knife. Heavy. 12-inch blade. John Russell Cutlery Co., 



Turner's Falls, Mass. 

 2519G. Fish-km^e. Hook handle. 12-inch blade. John Russell Cutlery 



Co., Turner's Falls, Mass. 



Scaling-knives. 



26210. Saw-blade fish-scaliug knife. John Russell Cutlery Co., Turner's 

 Falls, Mass. 



Sailors' and fishermen's sheath-knives. 



Sailors' sheath-knives. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., Middletown, Conn. 



29428. Sheath and belt, with "law-abiding" sheath-knife. First quality. 

 29423. Sheath and belt. Second quality. 



29427. Sheath and belt, with "law-abiding" sheath-knife. Third quality. 

 The "law-abiding" sheath-knife is round at the tip of the blade, 

 which is also thick and dull. 



Hunters' sheath-knives. 



The hunting-knives enumerated above, manufactured by the John Russell 

 Cutlery Co., and others like them, are usually provided with sheaths before 

 they are used by hunters. 



« 23365. Huuting-knife, sheath, aud l)elt. Forest &. Streaui Publishiug Co. 

 (Property of John A. Nichols, Syracuse, N. Y.) 



Slivering-knives, used by fishermen. 



These knives are used to slice the llesh from the sides of the menhaden used 

 for bait. The slices thus prepared are called "slivers," and are salted down 

 in barrels to be used as baits fin- cod, halibut, aud mackerel hooks, or are 

 ground up in the bait-uiills, forming "stosh" or "chum," a thick paste which 

 is thrown over the sides of the uuickerel-smacks to tole the fish to the 

 surface. 



