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not get a supply of fish, and eventually the company 

 collapsed. Some time afterwards Mr. Hewitt started the 

 idea of giving the fishermen in the North Sea a bonus for 

 bringing home the offal, and started a factory below 

 Barking, where this was boiled and mixed wdth a certain 

 amount of charcoal to fix the ammonia. He (Mr. Hounsell) 

 purchased a cargo of this and took it to Dorsetshire ; a 

 portion he employed in growing mangel wurzel, and gained 

 the first prize at the show, and the remainder he sold to 

 farmers at ^^14 to iJ"i5 a ton. 



Mr. Sayer said the idea of the Executive Committee 

 when this Exhibition was got up, was to augment the supply 

 and lessen the cost of edible fish to the public ; they had 

 no idea of turning fish into manure, but of getting a large 

 supply to London, so as to cheapen it. When he was 

 placed upon the Committee, he suggested the first thing to 

 do was to educate the people to eat those fish which were 

 thrown overboard ; he said they might cook these fish in 

 the Exhibition, and show the people that plaice, ling, 

 haddock, coal-fish and cod were as good as soles and 

 salmon. He was at first met with some opposition, and 

 asked if he wanted to turn the Exhibition into a fried-fish 

 shop ; but his idea was carried out, and he hoped that one 

 consequence would be to educate the public not only to 

 eat soles and salmon, which were so expensive, but also to 

 eat these common kinds of fish, which were so abundant in 

 Newfoundland, in America, and sometimes on our own 

 coast. 



Mr. Mackie said it was one thing to cook fish which 

 were now destroyed by the trawls, and another thing to 

 make good use of offal which was now wasted. New- 

 foundland seemed to be peculiarly a fishing station in 

 which there was an absence of waste fish of the small kind. 



