182 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



gallous to each day of twenty-four hours. lu 1872 they produced G0,000 

 gallons, and in 1873 105,000 gallons in their two factories, one factory 

 not operating all the time on account of a pending lawsuit. 



According to Capt. J. L. Stokes of the Salt Island Oil Company, the 

 average yield of oil is four gallons to the thousand, 0,000 fish making a 

 ton of scrap. Captain Beebe and Mr. Ingham put the highest for the 

 region about the mouth of the Connecticut Eiver at eight gallons, or 

 peihaps three gallons or less to the barrel. 



Mr. Miles writes : "All depends upon the quality of the fish, whether 

 fat or poor. In July, August, and September we only get fish that 

 come into the Sound to feed, and they fatten after they get here. If they 

 are poor, we have the largest catch in June and July ; if they are increas- 

 ing iu fat or yield of oil, we cannot capture them successfully until Au- 

 gust and September. The fat fish in the Sound are usually wild and 

 hard to take until late, perhaps owing to the fact that their food is 

 plenty and low in the water. When the season is unusually dry, the fish 

 are sure to be fat j but in a wet season they are found to be below the 

 average in yield of oil. After the fish get here, if their food is plenty, 

 they grow fat very fast. In the past season (1873), in May and June, 

 one million of fish would make only 800 gallons ; in August, the yield 

 was from 8 to 10 gallons per thousand, and in September, 10 to 12." 



At Greenport, iu 1873, the average yield, on Captain Sisson's estimate, 

 was 8J gallons to the thousand ; the smallest yield, half a gallon in 

 spring and late fall ; the greatest, 22, in September and October ; 8,000 fish 

 make a ton of green scrap. Mr. Havens puts the lowest yield at one 

 quart to the barrel, the highest at 4 gallons, an estimate much below 

 Captain Sisson's, which would make over 6 gallons to the barrel. 



Hawkins Bros, estimate the lowest yield at one gallon to the barrel 

 in midsummer, and 4^ in October and November, i^utting the average 

 quantity of fish to the gallon at one-third of a barrel on Gardiner's Bay, 

 one-half at Barren Island, and 85 gallons to a ton of scrap on Gardiner's 

 Bay, 57 at the island. 



At Atlantic City, N. J., according to Mr. A. G. Wolf, the average 

 yield is 4 gallons to the thousand, the greatest in November, 11 ; a ton 

 of scrap corresponding to 40 gallons of oil. 



On Great Egg Harbor, states Mr. Morris, July fish yield one quart of 

 oil to the barrel ; those of October and November yielding 4 gallons. 

 A gallon of oil is the average to each barrel of fish, and 45 gallons to a 

 ton of scrap. 



The yield to each barrel of fish was thus estimated by Rhode Island 

 manufacturers in 1877 : Joseph Church & Co. and W. H. H. Howland, 

 1 gallon ; Charles Cook, Job T. Wilson, Isaac G. White, and James 

 Manchester, 1^ gallons; Isaac Brown & Co., l^'^; and William J. 

 Brightman, 1^. 



Connecticut manufacturers are estimated as follows: The George W. 

 Miles Company, 2^ gallons to the thousand; Leander Wilcox & Co., 3 



