12 PISCATORIAL REMINISCENCES 



food for a large portion of the year ; the milk is 

 riot spoiled; all thrive on this diet. 



Frasers Travels. 



FISH, AS MANURE. 



Fish forms a powerful manure in whatever state 

 it is applied. The refuse of pilchards is used in 

 Cornwall, throughout the county, as manure, 

 with excellent effect, the pilchards are usually 

 mixed with sand, oil, or sea-weed, to prevent 

 them raising too luxuriant a crop. The effects 

 are perceived for years. 



It is easy to explain the operation of fish as 

 manure, skin gelatinous, fat or oil is found in 

 all fishes, &c. &c., a single pilchard will manure 

 a foot of ground. 



London's Encyclop. Agricult. 



It appears, from a report of the Doncaster 

 Agricultural Association, that whale oil has been 

 employed as a manure for turnip crops at one- 

 third the expense of bone manure. 



Lit. Gaz. June 13, 1835. 



* # * Many other notices of fish as manure are 

 inserted under the heads of the different fish. 



SHIP SAVED BY A FISH. 



In the year 1825, a vessel from Europe, bound 

 to Quebec, struck against some loose ice, and 

 sprung a leak below low water, which entered so 



