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the oil, may be made into fish meal for feeding. The material 

 of all the waste saved would be at least valuable as a fertilizer and 

 perhaps some of it might be profitably used as food for hogs or 

 fowls. This would bring good prices with grain so high. 



How this could be utilized with economy sufficient to make it 

 profitable, is as yet an unsolved problem. I have been obtaining 

 literature on the subject from the various manufacturers of the 

 apparatus necessary to the work, but so far find the cost of the 

 outfit too great for practical working, as, if only one outfit was 

 possible, the cost and difficulty of transportation and of time 

 would have to be considered. The points at which the largest 

 quantities of fish are dressed, Peoria, Havana, Beardstown and 

 Meredosia, could maintain small outfits perhaps, but none of 

 them a large one. 



It is possible that the next session of the Legislature will enact 

 laws prohibiting the throwing of masses of refuse of this kind into 

 the rivers, polluting the waters, which would necessitate some other 

 method of disposing of it, and perhaps this may result in 

 saving it. 



