HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN MENHADEN. 393 



55. Boston, Mass. 



5G. It has been used for paiut for the past thirteen years. 



57. Price per gallon, 45 cents. In 1801 it averaged $1.38 per gallon. 



58. It does to a great extent. 



15. Statement of WasJiington Olm, Iceeper of Pond Island Light, near 

 Boothbay, Me., February 18, 1874. 



1. Menhaden or pogy. 



2. More abundant than any other fish. 



3. Diminished. 

 5. It does. 



G. In May ; the main body arrives in July. The July fish are the 

 largest. 



7. Tbey swim at the top of the water and make ripples. 



8. They come from the sonth. 

 10. Tends to scare them. 



12. Very near the sea- shore. • 



13. Generally at the surface. 



16. They are not. 



17. They leave the coast in the fall. 



18. Go south. 



31. Worms are sometimes found in them. 



33. No disease of any kind. 



34. Purse-nets or seines. 



35. Length from 200 to 225 fathoms; depth from 15 to 25 fathoms. 

 30. Steamers, from 75 to 100 tons. 



37. From 10 to ]5 men. 



38. All day, if the weather is fine. 



42. Steamed and pressed for oil at Boothbay. 



43. Xot any nearer than Boothbay ; owned by Luther Maddocks. 



47. From 40 cents to $1.25 per barrel. 



48. Four hundred in May; 100 in August or September. 



50. One gallon in May. 



51. Four gallons in August or September. 



54. Boston and Xew York. 



55. The Southern States. 

 50. For painting. 



57. About 50 cents. 



58. Very much, and drives them from the land. 



10. Statement of an unlmoicn correspondent, Gloucester, Mass., March 2^^ 



1874. 



1. Menhaden, hardhead, or pogy. 



2. About the largest (if not the largest) school of fish that yisits our 

 coast. 



