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particular attention of the Judges. It was an advance made in 

 the proper direction — an admirable attempt to stop the fearful 

 waste of fish-food. A gentleman in Maine had succeeded in 

 utilizing as food, in its most concentrated way, the much- 

 despised menhaden. A product had been made b3 r him which 

 in every respect resembled Liebig's extract of meat. It was of 

 good taste and color, and without any fishy odor. Dissolved in 

 water it was like a bullion made of beef. Here was a valuable 

 substance, useful to man, giving muscle and brain — something 

 worth dollars and cents — which heretofore had been thrown 

 away ; for one of the great advantages of this fish-extract was 

 that in its preparation it did not preclude the extraction of the 

 oil, nor the conversion of what was left of the fish into 

 manure. 



As the action of this Society is peculiarly conservative in its 

 character, as it tends to the preservation of fish, I have thought 

 that these ideas of mine, hastily put together, might give oppor- 

 tunity for thought. 



No country under God's heaven has so much good fish-food 

 furnished it, and in no other land do I think it is so wasted. If 

 rich men with long purses only care to place salmon, trout, or 

 pompano on their tables, there are many modest boards, where 

 barely a scant meal is furnished, where variety of fish-food and 

 plenty of it might be had if we were not slaves to very false 

 and stupid ideas. 



It is not possible that even the present degree of plenty I 

 speak of in regard to fish can always last. When in fifty years 

 to come New York will rival London as to population, when 

 there are more mouths to feed and less to put in them, the lesson 

 of "waste not, want not" will be better understood. 



I think even if we were more icthyomniverous, and eat of 

 more varieties of fish both derived from fresh and salt water, 



