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great demand both for education iu fisLcry matters and for educated 

 men for the various fishery services both public and private. One 

 ex-student and capitalist, whom I met, had put Lis training to great 

 advantage for, already a dealer and broker in fishery products, etc., 

 he, with others, has just established a canning company with a 

 capital of about 50 lakLs of rupees, intending to absorb a number of 

 the small companies that have lost their business at the cessation of 

 the war and are too small and poor to develop and export trade by 

 themselves, and to open an export trade with first-class goods only, 

 since it was found that American and other orders had followed the 

 Japanese exhibits at the St. Louis Exposition of 1904. The instance 

 is a good one not only of the practical usefulness of the training but 

 of the promptitude with which the Japanese seize a likely opening. 



63. The following details from my notes of inspection may be 

 useful and interesting. 



64. The Museum is contained in two rooms and has many useful 

 exhibits, such as nets of new or old pattern, models of fish traps, 

 purse nets, live chests of wood or bamboo, boats, etc. The library is 

 not extensive but is up to date as regards reports especially those of 

 the United States. The laboratories (see list of rooms supra) are 

 completely equipped for all necessary purposes. The technological 

 workshops attracted my special attention as the first seen in Japan 

 and as singularly complete for a teaching Institute ; the shops form a 

 complete factory fitted with all plant necessary for a considerable 

 business both in canning, net and rigging making, oil expressing, etc. 

 In the canning shops young men were working with machines 

 (generally German, or copies from the German) for every process in 

 can-making ; in a second shop the students were at work soldering 

 the variously-shaped tins under the teaching of expert mechanics ; 

 there was a large (Vancouver) automatic soldering machine but it was 

 not in use. By one process cans were hermetically sealed with 

 rubber instead of solder, the flanged edges being turned over so as to 

 form a completely air-tight joint ; this is said to stand processing 

 perfectly well. All machines not for manual or foot-power, were 

 driven by electricity generated on the establishment. Another room 

 contains the steam baths, etc., viz., steam jacketed kettles, wooden 

 baths heated by free steam or coils at pleasure, and processing chests 

 or cookers used at from 225° to 240°F. ; also a vacuum pan for 

 substances requiring evaporation at low temperature. 



65. There is a complete 3et of chambers for drying fish, fish-glue,~ 

 etc.; air is driven by a fan at 750 revolutions, absorbing If H.P., 

 amongst steam pipes and then to a series of 10 wooden hot closets 

 about 6 feet high, 3 or 4 feet wide, and 4 or 5 feet deep which can be 

 used in series or cut out by a simple series of dampers ; the trays of 

 material are arranged one above the other on trolleys or cages running 



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