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represent, at 22 per cent of dried manure, a fishing of 9000 to 

 10,000 tons. The sardine-fishery and the offal of the curing-houses, 

 formerly lost, would furnish about one-half of that quantity ; but 

 M. de Molon has pointed out a fact from which would appear to 

 result the incontestable facility of obtaining at Concarneau far 

 greater quantities of fish than those mentioned above, by the fishery 

 of the coal-fish, which is sometimes found in immense quantities on 

 the coast, but which the fishermen do not often take, as they could 

 find no sale for them. 



" The factory of Concarneau, with the organised fishery which 

 M. de Molon intends to establish (sixty to seventy-eight well- 

 equipped boats), and by doubling its present plant, which is also 

 intended, will quadruple the quantity of dry manure which is now 

 produced in working only ten hours per day. 



" In addition to the 180 kilogrammes of coal burned in heating 

 the stove, we may add that 130 more (2861 Ibs.) are consumed by 

 the steam-engine, making a total of 230 kilogrammes, or little more 

 than four and a half cwts., or about one cwt. of coal to one ton of 

 manure. 



" The fish-manure fetches about 8s. per cwt. in the locality, and 

 is eagerly sought after by the farmers, who expect the most signal 

 results to agriculture from the extension of the manufacture ; while 

 the oil which, as already remarked, constitutes about 2 J per cent of 

 the raw fish, would be worth from 3s. to 3s. 4d. per gallon. These 

 figures show at once that the manufacture must be profitable a 

 fact which is fully guaranteed by Messrs. Payen and Pommier, 

 who, as a commission sent from the Agricultural Society in order 

 to report upon the project, had the privilege of examining the 

 books of the concern, and of thus satisfying themselves of its com- 

 mercial success. 



" The factory of Concarneau, as we have already noticed, was 

 only founded in order to serve as a model, not alone for those which 

 may be established on different points of the French coast, but also 

 in foreign countries. In addition to the factory established under 

 the superintendence of M. de Molon junior, in Newfoundland, and 

 which in its actual condition is capable of furnishing from 8000 to 

 10,000 tons of manure annually, it is proposed to establish others on 

 the same coast, and also on the coasts of the North Sea, on such a 



