74 ANIMAL RESOURCES AND FISHERIES OF UNITED STATES. 



Straight knives. 



Finning-knives. 



29400. Halibut-finning knife. Alex. McCurdy, Gloucester, Mass. 

 29412. Halibut-finning knife. Capt. E. L. Rowe, Gloucester, Mass. 



Chopping-knives. 



29406. Bait-cleaver (used in halibut fishing). Alex. McCurdy, Gloucester, 



Mass. 



32665. Cod-bait knife. Gloucester, Mass. U. S. Fish Commission. 

 32664. Bait-cleaver. " " 



Cheek-knives. 



29438. Codfish cheek-knife. Alex. McCurdy, Gloucester, Mass. 



Tkroating-knives. 



22669. Cod-throater (single edge). Gloucester, Mass. U. S. Fish Commission. 



22670. Cod-throater (double edge). " " 



Fish-knives (for general use). 



26159. Fish-knife. Heavy. 12-inch blade. John Russell Cutlery Co., 



Turner's Falls, Mass. 

 26196. Fish-knife. Hook handle. 12-inch blade. John Russell Cutlery 



Co., Turner's Falls, Mass. 



Scaling-knives. 



26210. Saw-blade fish-scaling knife. John Russell Cutlery Co., Turner's 

 Falls, Mass. 



Sailors 7 and fishermen's sheath-knives. 



Sailors' sheath-knives. Wilcox, Crittenden & Co., Middletown, Conn. 



29428. Sheath and belt, with " law-abiding" sheath-knife. First quality. 



29426. Sheath and belt. Second quality. 



29427. Sheath and belt, with "law-abiding" sheath-knife. Third quality. 



The " law- abiding" sheath-knife is round at the tip of the blade, 

 which is also thick and dull. 



Hunters' sheath-knives. 



The hunting-knives enumerated above, manufactured by the John Russell 

 Cutlery Co., and others like them, are usually provided with sheaths before 

 they are used by hunters. 



26665. Hunting-knife, sheath, and belt. Forest & Stream Publishing Co. 

 (Property of John A. Nichols, Syracuse, N. Y. ) 



Slivering-knives, used by fishermen. 



These knives are used to slice the flesh from the sides of the menhaden used 

 for bait. The slices thus prepared are called " slivers," and are salted down 

 in barrels to be used as baits for cod, halibut, and mackerel hooks, or are 



ground up in the bait-mills, forming "stosh" or "chum," a thick paste which 

 is thrown over the sides of the mackerel-smacks to tole the fish to the 

 surface. 



