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is recomrri'ending to the farmer that he give more protein feed to his hogs. 

 The fanner, in turn, asks where he can get the protein feed, his princi- 

 pal source of supply now being the tankage from the meat-packing con- 

 cerns. Officials of that Bureau tell us that a hog which has reached 225 

 pounds should have consumed 100 pounds of protein feed. Last year the 

 farmers raised something like 70,000,000 hogs, which would require a large 

 amount of protein feed if the advice of the Department of Agriculture 

 were followed. We are helping out in this. We advise the fisherman to 

 produce fish meal ; the Bureau of Animal Industry advises the farmer to 

 use fish meal, so our work dovetails in that way. 



Mr. Titcomb : There is one point I would like to bring out, in case 

 there may be some misunderstanding in regard to the use of fish meal. 

 Mr, Radcliffe spoke of Professor Embody. Three or four years ago Pro- 

 fessor Embody gave us a very interesting and valuable paper in which he 

 referred to the use of fish meal. I do not think that the records of the 

 Society have been properly corrected, but it turned out that the fish meal 

 which he was using at that time was really a meat meal made in Chicago 

 and sold as fish meal. Of course, fish culturists want to know the dif- 

 ference; we want to know that the fish meal which we are now talking 

 about is really made from fish. Possibly, we have not experimented suf- 

 ficiently along this line. We might be able to find some dry feed that we 

 could keep in storage for (the feeding of fish. 



Mr. Radcliffe : I may say for Mr. Titcomb's benefit that we are as- 

 sembling lists of actual producers of fish meal in this country. On the 

 west coast about nine-tenths of the fish waste is now being converted 

 into fish meal, only one-tenth into fish scrap. There is a production of 

 something like ten thousand tons on that coast every year, but on the east 

 coast they have been slow to recognize the value of fish meal. The best 

 use we can make of fish is to eat it ; the next best is to feed it to our stock, 

 and then, as Dr. Smith pointed out, what you cannot use for these two 

 purposes should be put on the land. 



Mr. W. a. Found, Ottawa, Canada: We are discussing what seems 

 to me to be a matter of extremely great importance to the fishing indus- 

 try, as well as to the agricultural interests. The Pacific coast does not 

 present the problems in this connection that the Atlantic coast does. On 

 the Pacific coast, on both sides of the line, we have a large industry with 

 centralized operations, the offal being produced in one place, or in con- 

 nection with the salmon canning industry; and the rush of fish is great 

 while the work is going on. On our Atlantic coast in Canada we have two 

 essential fisheries, or, I should say, two essential parts of the fishery indus- 

 try. The one may be regarded as the principal factor — ^the inshore fisher- 

 man who operates his own boat, sometimes with three men in a boat, and 

 takes his fish to his own centre. This comprises by far the greatest por- 

 tion of our industry. The wholesale end of it, the schooner and trawler 

 fishing, where the fish are all brought to central ports, comprises as yet 

 the smaller part of our industry. We are possibly wasting many hun- 

 dred thousand tons of valuable material each year around our coasts ; it 



