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if canners are widely scattered, this, as a matter of course, will increase the number 
numerically—not in proportion to the pack. 
11. The inspection covers sanitation in plants, quarters for employees, and sani- 
tation of the product. It is also proposed, as the work progresses, to apply inspection 
to the character of the raw product, and grading of the same. This grading on staples 
will be worked out on recommendation frcm the advisory board, which will be har- 
monized so as to give a uniform grade to each product through the entire country. 
12. In localities where inspection has been installed, local laboratories purchased 
and financed by the funds for inspection, have been found most useful. These 
laboratories furnish prompt facilities for canners for testing their product and working 
out manufacturing problems which come up during the activities of the canning 
season. These laboratories are established and work in harmony with the research 
laboratories of the National Canners’ Association, Washington, D. C. 
13. This inspection can well be made the basis of a consistent publicity advertising 
campaign, should the industry adopt it generally, in time to guarantee its working 
satisfactorily during the canning season of 1919. The present plan, however, does 
not include this publicity campaign, as this is a matter which must necessarily be 
passed upon later by the canners themselves. 
14. Copy of contract with each canner is herewith inclosed, or information. 
On February 17, 1919, the matter of adopting this inspection system 
was submitted to the salmon canners of the Pacific coast and accepted 
by a large majority. A chief inspector and a number of assistants 
were appointed, who carried on a sanitary inspection of the various 
canneries during the following summer. It is the intention ulti- 
mately to extend this inspection to the pack itself. 
INVESTIGATION OF CANNED SALMON INDUSTRY. 
In 1917 and 1918 an investigation of the canned salmon industry 
was made by the Federal Trade Commission and many valuable 
‘ statistical data were gathered and published.* 
The following table shows, with other data, the average number 
of fish per case of each grade packed in the different geographical 
sections. 
NuMBER OF FIsH CANNED AND PURCHASED, NUMBER OF CASES PACKED, AND AVER- 
AGE NUMBER OF FIsH PER CasgE. 2 
. 
1916. 
——_—$ EE EE TN Pa DLL LL IS Lei al lla aul Gala 
P t | 
q ercent- 
Num- age of ee 
pero} Number | Number Pe Number | num- 
District. Grade of fish. pala of fish of fish hich ofcases | ber of 
= canned. | purchased. packed. | fish 
eport were on 
ing. pur- Ase A 
chased. 
West Alaska...........- KAN PS seme ee 7 111, 381 27,175 24. 39 26, 003 4, 28 
Central Alaska..........]----- dose ates 6 25, 483 11, 602 45.52 5, 854 4.35 
Southeast Alaska. ......|..... doit itis 20 148, 286 136, 597 92. 12 34,344 4.31 
Puget Sound... -2---2/4)/5--.-, GOirercecee 15 180, 580 80, 574 44. 62 25, 606 7.05 
Columbia River........|...-- doi cane ce 9 865, 392 842, 127 97. 31 265, 376 3.26 | 
Outsiderivers ¢.........|.---- olin epaesee 7 60, 656 60, 143 99.15 18, 607 3. 25 4 
Totalsand averages |.........------- 64 | 1.391,778| 1,158, 218 83. 66 375, 790 3.73 | 
a  ———————— _————— | 
West Alaska............ s | 16,564,413 | 1,017,042 6.13 | 1,223,950] 13.52 
Central Alaska......--. Broek c au 1, 387, 647 547, 261 39. 43 118, 891 11. 67 | 
Southeast Alaska Dae am 9 | 1,609,978 784, 503 48. 70 123,767} 13.00. 
Puget Sound........... : ie 2, 593, 240 168, 584 6. 50 198,205] 13.04 | 
Columbia River........ QI BGE 775, 382 439, 900 56. 73 67,334 | 11.52. 
Outside rivers ¢.....-..-.- F ae 59, 352 59, 352 100. 00 4, 645 12. 78 
Totalsand averages.|........eeeee--- 69 | 22,990,012 | 3,016, 642 1,736,792 | 13.24 
i 
a Report of the Federal! Trade Commission on Canned Foods. Canned salmon. December, 1918. 83pp. | 
Washington, 1919. ; 
b Report of the Federal Trade Commission: Op. cit., pp. 15, 16 
¢ Coastal streams in Washington, Oregon, and California. 
