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Comparative statistics of the salmon pack in Alaska, 1921 to 1925 



Comparative statistics of the salmon pack in the United States and Alaska., 



1921 to 1925 



/Sardines. — In 1925 there were 31 plants in Maine, 1 in Massa- 

 chusetts, and 26 in California engaged in the canning of sardines. 

 The production in Maine and Massachusetts amounted to 1,870,786 

 standard cases of one hundred 14-pound cans, valued at $6,716,701, 

 a decrease of 29,139 cases, or 1.5 per cent, in quantity and 

 $474,325, or 6.6 per cent, in value as compared with 1924. In Cali- 

 fornia the production totaled 1,714,913 standard cases of forty-eight 

 1-pound cans, valued at $0,380,617, an increase of 347,774 cases, or 

 25.4 per cent, in quantity and $935,044, or 17.2 per cent, in value 

 as compared with 1924. 



Pack of sardines, 1925 



i Largely in tomato sauce. 



2 Largely in olive oil. 



3 Includes a few cases packed in 6-ounce tall cans, 100 to the case, and also a few cases packed in SJ^-ounce 

 felass jars, 24 to the case, which have been converted to a basis of Mi-pound cans, 100 to the case. 



4 Standard case equals one hundred 3^-pound cans. 

 8 Standard case equals forty-eight 1-pound cans. 



