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quantities, and sardines are now canned both for Lome use and export. 

 The factory — nearly all workshop— is close to the beach and contains 

 15 rooms and sheds, all of wood as usual in Japan ; the first shed, open- 

 sided, with a stream of running water, is for cutting- up and dressing 

 the fish ; the next has 6 steam jacketed kettles, ordinary open boilers 

 with free steam or steam coil, an oven for baking certain classes of fish 

 at certain stages, cooker, etc. There is a small steam engine with 

 boiler which supplies the steam for the various apparatus, a mill foi 

 preparing shark pulp, hand presses for baling dried fish for export to 

 Manchuria duiing the war, screw press, etc. ; also a good desiccator 

 which will be described with others in my final report, and which will 

 in four or five hours dry fresh fish sufficiently for trade purposes ; a 

 smoking arrangement only used for the dried bonito wedges, consisting 

 of trays with open-work bottoms of wire netting or bamboo, piled 

 vertically over a furnace, a simple but not a good arrangement, as the 

 trays nearest to the fire are smoked before the top ones, and the whole 

 have to be moved when the lower ones are ready. These same fish trays 

 are used for carrying and supporting the fish on the ' flakes ' (drying 

 tables or low scaffolds like parallel bars) during dryage in the open 

 air, so that the currents of air play freely on both sides of the fish and 

 dry it regularly and equally : this or a similar method is that always 

 used in America, Great Britain, etc., for drying fish and is that sug- 

 gested in my West Coast Report as a substitute for the unscientific 

 and harmful method of drying fish on the surface of the ground ; the 

 process is described below as also that of preparing shark flesh paste 

 and other fish edibles. 



71. The canning rooms contain the usual plant, mostly American, 

 for making and closing tins from 2 lbs. downwards ; inspection in 

 other countries and exhibits at Milan, etc., show that larger tins are 

 greatly in demand. Gas fitted soldering irons of the most modern 

 type such as I have seen in use at Yarmouth, were being introduced. 



Fruit desiccation and canning are taught as a subsidiary business 

 in this factory. 



72. The school seems remarkably complete, and young men, 

 already part trained at the Central Institute eventually become 

 thoroughly practical and skilled men after a full course in this factory 

 where everything is done by the students only. The practical and 

 successful nature of the school factory is shown by the fact that a 

 similar one, copied from this feut with larger plant, was opened next 

 door and supplied fish for the troops during the war ; probably it is 

 one of those which will be taken over by the Tokyo Company 

 mentioned above. 



73. New Fishery Institute. — A t Sapporo in Hokkaido which is a 

 fishing locality of vast potentialities, a new and very large and com- 

 plete Fishery Institute i^ now being opened by Government; th© 



