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sonnel available for the purpose. For this reason, the division has 

 not been able to study special problems affecting certain products, 

 processes, or methods. In order to serve the industry in this connec- 

 tion, the bureau by congressional authorization has provided research 

 associate facilities whereby firms or groups having special technologi- 

 cal problems to solve will furnish the investigator and pay his salary 

 and expenses. The investigation is carried out in cooperation with 

 the bureau's staff in its laboratories and under its control. This 

 makes available to the industry laboratory, consultation, and library 

 facilities which they are imable to obtain elsewhere. 



During the past year, a manufacturer of marine products took 

 advantage of these facilities and placed a chemist in the division's 

 laboratory to make a study of the nutritive value of kelp meal. 



LABORATORIES 



During the past year the division carried on its technological 

 research work under the direction of John Ruel Manning at labora- 

 tories in Washington, D. C, and Gloucester, Mass., and has provided 

 equipment for a laboratory in the bureau's new building in Seattle, 

 Wash. In addition, work was conducted in other laboratories as con- 

 ditions warranted. For instance, certain cooperative biochemical 

 studies were conducted at the laboratories of the South Carolina 

 Food Research Commission, Charleston, S. C; at the laboratory of 

 the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, United States Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C; and at experimental farms of the 

 Department of Agriculture and the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. Research on the refrigerating, salting, and smoking of fish 

 was conducted in the Virgin Islands and in Puerto Rico, and other 

 investigations were conducted in the field where optimum working 

 conditions obtained. 



WASHINGTON, D. C. 



With the transfer of the bureau's headquarters from Sixth and B 

 Streets SW., to the new Department of Commerce Building, Washing- 

 ton, D. C, the division's technological laboratories in the old quarters 

 were dismantled and moved to the new building. Chemical, nutri- 

 tional, and mechanical investigations relative to fishery products are 

 now being carried on in these laboratories. 



GLOUCESTER, MASS. 



During the year, the division completed the establishment of its 

 technological research laboratory at Fort Square, Gloucester, Mass. 

 This has been equipped to conduct various phases of fishery tech- 

 nological research, including refrigeration, smoking, bacteriology, 

 by-products, and production methods. 



The laboratory is located on the second floor of a building, along 

 the water front facing Gloucester Harbor, and has wharf facilities 

 on two sides. This is convenient as it enables the technologists to 

 come into close contact with the fishing fleet operating out of this 

 port. It also enables them to obtain laboratory samples, with which 

 to experiment, directly from vessels as a large number of them land 

 their fares at this wharf. 



