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at the present time. It is his belief that the product is 

 worthy of a fair trial by every fish culturist. 



Author's Note, Dec. 5, 1914: It has been recently ascertained that the 

 "fish meal" referred to above was made from lean beef and not from fish 

 flesh. This error is regretted very much, and in justice to himself the 

 writer desires to say that the food was labelled "fish meal" by the com- 

 pany selling same and was sent to him in answer to a specific request 

 for a product made from fish flesh. 



The general results given above are not affected by this mistake. But 

 the portion of the paper referring to the manufacture and composition 

 of the food applies to a meal made from fish flesh. The methods of 

 manufacture and analyses of several brands of true fish meal may be 

 learned from the following publication, namely, "The fish-scrap fer- 

 tilizer industry of the Atlantc Coast," by J. W. Turrentine, Bulletin 

 No. 2, Bureau of Soils, United States Department of Agriculture. 



A meal made from the flesh of salt water fishes may be obtained from 

 The Flavell Company, Asbury Park, Ni. J. — G. C. Embody. 



DISCUSSION. 



Me. Lydell, of Michigan: I wish to ask where this food may be 

 obtained and what is the name of it? 



Prof. Embody: It has been used by poultry men for a good many 

 years. I procured the best meal from Darling & Co., Union Stock 

 Yards, Chicago. It is known by two names, "fish meal" and "fish food." 



Mr. Titcomb: I had some of this stuff several years ago. It contained 

 about a pound of sand to five pounds of the so-called meal. This 

 looked to me more like ground meat scraps than fish. We used it 

 successfully with young perch, but with other fish it was a failure. 



Prof. Embody: The Darlington Co. claims that this is ground fish, 

 and it is very clean. It is probably made from salt water fish, as most 

 of our fish scrap and fertilizer material comes from the Atlantic coast. 



