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relating agency, performing necessary service beyond the scope of 

 any one individual State. 



The technological work of the Bureau has been aided materially 

 by cooperation Avith other agencies. At the South Carolina Food 

 -Research Commission one of the Bureau's technologists studied the 

 nutritive value of fishery products, with special attention being given 

 to oysters from all sections of the country. In the feeding of fishery 

 products to farm animals, the Bureau also cooperated with the Ohio 

 State Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio; the North 

 Carolina State Agricultural Experiment Station, Kaleigh, N.C. ; and 

 the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell Uni- 

 versity, Ithaca, N.Y. The nutritive value of kelp meal was studied 

 in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture 

 and producers of kelp meal. The preservation of cordage was 

 studied in cooperation with the Navy Department at Boston. A 

 portion of the Bureau's study of the preservation of textile fishing 

 gear and twine was conducted in cooperation with the Weather 

 Bureau, the Bureau of Standards, and various individual fishermen 

 at various fishing centers. A study on the measurement of the size 

 of mesh used in gill nets in the Great Lakes was aided by the Bureau 

 t>f Standards and various States and certain Provinces of Canada 

 bordering the Great Lakes. A study of the manufacture of salmon 

 oil was begun in the vicinity of Seattle, with assistance from the 

 salmon branch of the National Canners Association in Seattle. At 

 Gloucester, Mass., the local fishing industry is making material con- 

 tributions to the maintenance of the Bureau's technological laboratory 

 located in that city by providing the building for the laboratory 

 without cost to the Government. Members of the staff of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass., have aided the Bureau 

 in developing programs for bacteriological studies of fishery prod- 

 ucts, and for the home canning of fishery products. 



A market study was made of the fishing industry in Florida in 

 cooperation with the State Marketing Bureau, and various indi- 

 viduals and companies in the State. In its marketing w^ork the 

 Bureau also cooperated with the State of Virginia, establishing 

 marketing grades for certain fishery products in that State. 



The biological investigations of the Bureau were aided by the 

 cooperation of several States that provided funds, personnel, and 

 equipment for projects in their territory. The State of New York 

 continued the joint nutrition studies on trout at Cortland in cooper- 

 ation with the College of Agriculture, Cornell University, and the 

 enlarged program of pond-culture work at Rochester. Michigan 

 and Wisconsin cooperated financially in the study of conservation 

 of food fishes through the use of improved fishing gear. Georgia, 

 Louisiana, and Texas continued their assistance with personnel 

 and other contributions to the shrimp investigations. The oyster 

 cultural research program in the South Atlantic and Gulf States 

 has been aided by the help of North and South Carolina, Georgia, 

 and Florida. California provided all the field expenses of the trout 

 and oyster investigations. Mississippi assumed the expense of a 

 survey of the fisheries in that State. The Bureau is continuing its 

 oyster research in Connecticut with the laboratory and vessel put at 

 its disposal by the State, and similar facilties are available in Puget 



