TABLE OF CONTENTS. IX 



Page. 

 Section F.— Menhaden and OTriEu Fisn, and their products, as related to agriculture — 

 Continued. 



49. IJie manufacture of fish manures — Continued. 



293. Goodalo's new process 224 



294. Adamson's process 225 



295. Immense waste of fisb at present. Possibilities of future manufacture 226 



296. "Acidulated fish" and " Fisli and potash salts" 226 



297. Manufacture of ammoniated superphosphates 227 



50. Chemical composition of menhaden and other fish and of fish manures 228 



298. Analyses of whole menhaden ond of, flesh and bones of whale 228 



299. Analyses of fish fertilizers 229 



300. Waste from faulty manufacture and use of flsh fertilizers 230 



51. The use of fish fertilizers in agriculture 230 



301. Chemistry of plant 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 important in ferti- 



lizers - 233 



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



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



307. Explanation of chemical terms used in fertilizer analyses 234 



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



309. Relative values of different fertilizers. Fish and Peruvian guano 244 



310. Ways of improving fieh manure ; fermentation 247 



311. Composting 247 



312. Feeding to stock 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, maintenance, 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. German tables 256 



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



chusetts - 258 



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



321. Other European experience 259 



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



32J. Experiment of Professor Farrington on flsh scrap vs. corn-meal for sheep 260 



324. European experiments on digestion and nutritive value of flsh 263 



325. General conclusions 264 



53. Recapitulation 265 



326. Fish as manure 265 



327. Fish as food for stock 266 



328. The loss to our agriculture from waste of fish. The evil 266 



329. The 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— Bibliogrepby 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 Cliipea tyrannus and Oniscus prcegustator. By B. H. 



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



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



Society of New York, 1815, p. 453 282 



FromStorer's "History of the Fishes of Massachusetts," 1867, p. 168 283 



From Dekay's "Zoology of New York, Fishes," 1842, p. 259 284 



From Cuvier and Valencienne's "Uistoire Naturelle des Poissons," XX, p. 424 286 



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



From Perley's "Report on the Sea and Elver 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 



Appe\dix E. — Catalogue of specimens in the United States National Museum illustrating the 



history of the menhaden 289 



