140 FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



SUN-DRYD^G APPARATUS. 



Flake-drying — Continued. 



39434. Codfish-tiake. New style. Model. Capt. Atwood, Provincetown. 

 The old style or brush-flake has been almost entirely superseded by 

 the new pattern. The new flake is constructed so as to be movable about 

 a horizontal axis, thus making it possible to expose the fish placed upon 

 it to the direct rays of the sun during the whole day, or to keep them in 

 the shade, as may be most desirable. 



SMOKE-DRYING APPARATUS. 



Herring smoke-houses. 



12105. Model of smoke-house used in preparation ofhemng (Clupeaharengus). 



Lubec, Me. U. S. Fish Commission. 

 12105|. Model of smoke-house used in preparation of salmon {Salmo salar). 



Lubec, Me. U. S. Fish Commission. 



4. Preservation by canning and picKLiNa. 

 SALTING ESTABLISHMENTS. 



25750. Model of D. D. Parmalee's Waukegan fishery. J. W. Milner. 



This model shows in miniature all the apparatus employed in clean- 

 ing and saltiug down the lake whitefish. 



(Accessory.) Salt: 



Model of salt-mills used on Cape Cod in former days. 



Extensively used in the first half of the present century in obtaining salt 

 by evaporation of sea-water. Their remains are found on Cape Cod and 

 Nantucket. 

 2.5706. Model of salt-works. Nantucket, Mass. W. H. Chase, 2d. 



CANNING MEATS. 



Model of lobster-canning factory. 



26583. Model of Johnson & Young's lobster-house, Warren Bridge, near 

 Fitchburg depot. Johnson &, Young, Boston, Mass. 

 This model shows the factory with its vats for steaming the lobsters, 

 the wharf, and the derricks used in handling the lobsters. It is accom- 

 panied by models of lobster-smack, and of the principal forms of lobster- 

 nets ; catalogued elsewhere. 



Oyster-canning factory. 



39334. Photograph. Side view of D. D. Mallory& Co. 's oyster-packinghouse, 



Baltimore. U. S. Fish Commission. 



39335. Photograph. Interior view of a steamed-oyster packing-house, Bal- 



timore. U. S. Fish Commission. 

 Lithographic view of oyster-packing house, Baltimore, Md. 



Cans for fish, &c. 



39313. Quart cans (4) for transportation of raw oysters to the interior of 

 the country. R. H. Edmunds, Baltimore. 

 In these cans raw oysters are ijlaced, and the covers having been sol- 

 dered on, they arc packed in boxes of ice. 

 39340. Tin cans, for canned fish. Hine & Co., 1315 Doyers street, New York. 

 39443. Printed ends of boxes showing dilferent brands of boneless fish. 

 Louis Merchant, Gloucester, Mass. 



