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mi cl. <^^ 1„ gallons or more per tl,„us,u,d fish, ,„■ ratli.'r tor each 22 000 



F - ;? T^' r *',':"'"'"■ "' ^'"•""'™ "'•■*" "' «°"t''«™ localities 



E,o„ ,„ the same loeahty the flsh are Tery much fatter throu.C t 

 some years tha,. m others. For instance, the average yie 1,1 oTffie 

 tsl, taken ,n Che.sapeake Bay i„ 18.87 was neari,- 6 ga Ions to ( le 

 thousand, whereas in 1888 it was a little over 2 o-a Ions anTe- 1 

 that season it was less than 1 pint to the thou ami flh sL J '" 

 ago one of the Shelter Island factories secured torn o^;e lot o hi: 

 yield of 24 gallons to the thou.sand. The lar..est vMd lro„!i /t « 

 notice of the writer was derived fron, .some me, ,',Ten tl aM 1 ? 



:";;ftrrtr'r^"^"""'"- ^^^^^^^^^^^ 



If fW n bay these became so fat that they yielded at the 

 me of 48 gallons of oil per thousand fish. Considei4g- tie en^re 

 Atlantic coast for a series of ten years endino^ in 1809 u ^ ! . ? 

 each thousand flsh yielded 4.50 ilonsTf iCd'Ss \^, L :rL t' 

 conta.nmg 10 per cent of nroisture. Durin<. the ten enn^r ' 



thonsand fish for each year sinppl87q v '^/^^ ^^«i age yield per 

 } ic d m 1887 and also that in 1886 were large, beino- 6 81 and cAl 



Northern flsh, or rather those takenin Korthe: ' ^rst^ecialt^ff 



measure. Mekhaden have not h.l If' ^''^^''''^ ^"^ *^^ thousand 

 since 1898. ^'"^'^'''' ^'^'^ ^°* ^^^^ taken to any extent on that coast 



TREATMENT OF THE SCRAP. 



As it leaves the press, fish scrap contains 45 or 50 percent of water 

 tio., as a fertilizer, the moi.st condition of this scrap renders it unde- 



