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 Appendix N. — Statements of correspondents — Continued. ^ 



77. Statement of Capt. David Kemps, Yellow Blnffs, Fla., February 10,1875 481 



78. Statement of Charles Kocb, Jacksonville, Fla., January 15, 1874 482 



79. Statement of D. P. Kane, Matagorda, Texas, March 1, 1874 483 



Appendix O. — Misccllaneons items regarding the use of fish for manure 483 



1. The earliest printed account of the use of menhaden for a fertilizer, being an extract 



from an article by Ezra I'Hommedieu, 1801 483 



2. Letter from C. A. Goessman on the agricultural value of menhaden fertilizers 485 



3. A description of the factory of the Pacific Guano Company at "Wood's Holl, Mass 487 



4. The Cumberland Bone Company's works 491 



5. The Quiunipiac Fertilizer Company's works 492 



6. The Crowell Manufacturing Company 493 



7. Method of calculating costs of valuable ingredients of fertilizers. By W. O. Atwater. 495 



8. Improved methods of di'ying fish-scrap _ 502 



Appendix P. — Exports of menhaden oil, from the port of i^ew -York, from January, 1675, to July, 



1878 503 



Appendix Q. — Supplementary works, September 22, 1878 506 



1. An early allusion to the "fat-back" on the Southern coast •.. 506 



2. Departure of the schools in the fall 506 



3. The spawning grounds of the menhaden 507 



4. Menhaden fishing on a Long Island steamer. By Ernest Ingersoll 508 



5. The manufacture of sardines from menhaden 512 



6. Small oil-trying in Maine, 1860 513 



7. The use of fish for manure by the early colonists of Massachusetts 514 



8. A fish fertilizer company in Boston, 1860 514 



Explanation of plates 515 



Alphabetical index 519 



