TABLE OF CONTENTS. IX 



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Pape. 

 Section N. — Memiiaden and otiieu risn, and tiieiu tuoducts, as kelated to AGitif:i;i,TijKF, — 

 Contimicil. 



49. The manufacture of fish manures — Continued. 



293. Go()(l:ilo's u' w procetjs 221 



294. AiIauiHon'a process 2J.'j 



295. Iiumouao waste of flsb at present. Posniliilitios of future manufacture 2iJ0 



20G. "Acidulated fish" and " Fisli and ])otaMh H.alts" 22fi 



297. Mimuf.icturo cf ainruoniatcd superpliospliaten 227 



50. Chemical compo^itiun of menhaden and other fu>h and of fish rnaiiures 228 



298. Analyses of wLolo nu nliadcn pud of flesh aLd bonea of whale 22a 



299. Analy.sesof fish fertilizers 229 



300. Waste from f.mlty manufacture and use of flab foitilizcrs 230 



51. The use of fLih fertilizers in agriculture 230 



301. Cbomistry of jilaut nutrition 230 



302. Essential ingredients of plant food 231 



303. Exhaustion of soils by crops _ 231 



304. Ingredients commonly lacking in worn-out soils, and hence most inipoitant in ferti- 



lizers 233 



305. Principles to be observed in the manufacture and in the purchase of fertilizers 233 



306. Composition, character, and uses of fertilizers in general 233 



307. Explanatioa of chemical terms used in fertilizer analyses 234 



308. Valuations of commercial fertilizers. (See also Appendix 0) 235 



309. Rolativo values of diflerent fertilizers. Fish and Peruvian guano 214 



310. Ways of improving fibh manure; fermentation 247 



311. Composting 247 



312. Feeding to stoclc 248 



313. Danger in using fisb fertilizers alone 249 



52. Fish as food for domestic animals 250 



314. Laws of animal nutrition as shown by experiments. European researches 250 



315. General principles of feeding, mainteuaucp, and production 251 



316. Digestion of foods by animals as tested by European experiments 254 



317. What is essential to economy in feeding. Proportions of albuminoids and carbo- 



hydrates 255 



318. Composition and valuations of various food materials. Gorman tables 256 



319. Early experience in use of lish as food for stock. Feeding cattle on fish in Massa- 



chusetts 258 



320. Experience of Mr. Lawes in England on fish as food for swice 258 



321. Other European experience 259 



322. Success of Maine farmers in feeding sheep on fish 259 



323. Experiment of Professor Farriugton on fi^:^h scrap vs. corn-meal for sheep 2fi0 



324. European experiments on digestion and nutritive value of fish 2C3 



3i5. General conclusions 264 



53. Recapitulation 265 



32G. Fish as manure 265 



327. Fish as food for stock 266 



328. The loss to our agriculture from waste of fish. The evil 2C6 



329. Tho remedy 266 



Appendix A.— Circular relating to statistics of the menhaden fishery 268 



Appendix B.— List of correspondents from whom contributions have been received 271 



Appendix C— liibliogr.iphy of literature relating to the menhaden 274 



Appendix D.— Extracts from writings of ichthyologists relating to the menhaden 279 



A drawing and description of the Clupea tijrannus and Oniscus prcerjustator. By B. H. 



Latrobe. < Transactions of American Phihisophical Society, Vol. V, 1802, pp. 78-80 279 



From Mitchill's " Fishes of New York." < Transactions of Literary and Philosophical 



Society of New Toik, 1815, p. 453 282 



From Storer's " nistory of the Fishes of Massachusetts," 1867, p. 168 283 



From Dekay's "Z ^tlogy of New York, Fishes," 1842, p. 259 234 



From Cuvier and Valencienne's "Ilistoi-e Naturelle des Poissons," XX, p. 424 236 



From Uhler and Lugger's "List of the Fishes of Maryland," 1876, p. 133 287 



From Perley's " E port on the Sea and Kiver Fisheries of New Brunswick," 1852, p. 208. . 287 



From Gray's Catalogue of Fish, by Gronow, 1854, p. 140 287 



From Giinther's "Catalogue of Fishes in the British Museum," VII, p. 436 288 



Appendix E.— Catalogue of specimens in the United Slates National Museum illustrating the 



history of the menhaden 289 



