514 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



congratulations from the first busiufiss houses of New York, Saint Louis, 

 Cincinnati, and the other great cities, all speaking in high terms of the 

 flavor and delicacy of the American sardine, and reporting large sales 

 of the article. So great has been the demand that up to the time of 

 the panic they were unable to fill the orders pouring in from various 

 parts of this country and Europe. The fishing season this year com- 

 mences late, having been materially delayed by the cold weather. The 

 ' schools,' however, are expected in the vicinity of Sandy Hook by the 

 1st of May, after which the work will be prosecuted night and day to 

 the close of the season." 



6. Small oil-trying worlcs in Maine, 18G0. 



(Paragraph 229, p. 165.) 



The Gloucester Telegraph of February 22, 18G0, states that the inhab- 

 itants of Brooklin, Me., manufacture annually from 500 to 1,000 barrels 

 of pogy oil, worth from $15 to $20 a barrel. 



7. The use of fiali for manure hy the early colonists of Massachusetts. 

 (Paragraph 268, p. 195.) 



The following order from the records of the town of Ipswich, Mass., 

 May 11, 1644, illustrates, in a comical way, the custom of using fish for 

 manure in those early days : 



" It is ordered that all doggs, for the space of three weeks after the 

 publishing hereof, shall have one legg tyed up, and if such a dogg shall 

 break loose and be found doing any harm, the owner of the dogg shall 

 pay damage. If a man refuse to tye up his dogg's legg, and bee bee 

 found scrapeing up fish in a cornefield, the owner thereof shall pay 

 twelve pence damages beside whatever damage the dogg doth. But if 

 any fish their house lotts and receive damage by doggs, the owners of 

 those house lotts shall bear the damage themselves."* 



8. A fish-fertilizer com^Mmy in Boston, 1860. 



(Paragraph 282, p. 210.) 



"A company was established in Boston in 1860, prepared to grant 

 licenses for treating fish under the patent of Messrs. De Molon and 

 Thurneyssen, dated March 6, 1855."t 



* CoflSu's History of Newbury, &c. Boston, 1845, p. 42. 

 t Cape Ann Advertiser, 1860. 



