382 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



44. From 25,000 to 225,000 gallons, according to capacity. Tbere is a 

 great difference in the capacity ; three factories here made one-quarter 

 of the oil and one-sixth of the scrap made in the whole country. 



45. From 40,000 to 500,000 gallons, if they could get fish and they 

 were fat enough. 



40. The cost of factories, including machinery, varies from $10,000 to 

 $70,000, not including fish-gear and gangs. 



47. Sixty-five cents were paid the last two years, but they have been 

 as high as $1 when oil was higher. 



48. Our eastern fish average about 2^ gallons to the barrel. 



49. From 30 to 40 barrels. 



50. Our first fish make about three quarts to the barrel; only a few of 

 these caught. 



51. Four gallons in August and September, when we go to sea after 

 the fish. 



52. The average is greater north, although the fattest fish caught last 

 year, Southold Bay, Long Island, 7 gallons to the barrel. 



53. The factories in Maine were built ten years ago. Since then there 

 have been some twenty built ; there are fourteen in operation now, or 

 will be in the season of fishing. 



54. Boston and New York. 



55. The manufacturers of superphosphate use principal part of it, 

 although the farmers use it as it comes from the factorj' ; it is too strong 

 of ammonia to use raw, varying from 7 to 12 per cent. 



50. Mostly used for tanners' oil. 



57. Forty to sixty cents per gallon. Have known it to be sold for $1.35 

 per gallon. 



58. Do not see any variation for the last ten years. 



6. Statement of L. MaddocJcs^ Booth Bay, Me., JDecemher 25, 1877. 



The names and tonnage of my steamers are as follows : Steamer 

 Mabel Bird, 80 tons; steamer M. M. Fish, 80 tons; steamer Grace Dar- 

 ling, 75 tons ; steamer Phebe, 70 tons; steamer S. L. Goodale, 70 tons; 

 steamer H. M. Price, 20 tons. 



7. Statement of G. B. Kenniston, Booth Bay, Mc, February 14, 1874. 



1. Known about equally as pogy and menhaden. 



2. It is found in numbers almost incomparably greater than any other. 



3. Increased. 



4. In this town (Booth Bay), in 1873, were taken 152,000 barrels, as 

 follows: Kenniston, Cobb & Co., 17,000; Gallup and Holmes, 17,000; 



