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CENSUS STATISTICS OF THE MENHADEN INDUSTRY FOR 1880. 



In 1880 the total number of persons employed in tLe menhaden fishery and in the manufacture 

 of the oil and guano was 3,035; the capital invested was $2,362,841; and the value of the products 

 was $2,116,787. The detailed statistics for each State were as follows: 



Number of persons employed. 



Capital invested, and apparatus employed. 



Quantities and values of products. 



Includes $20,477, the value of menhaden sold to factories outside the State or used for bait. 

 A COMPARISON OF THE YIELD OF THE WHALE AND OTHER FISHERIES. In 1875, the total 



amount of sperm oil from the American whale fisheries was 1,000,951 gallons; of other whale oil, 

 1,414,186 gallons; in all, 2,505,137 gallons. The amount of menhaden oil for the same year was 

 2,018,487 gallons, an excess of 176,350 gallons. In 1874, the amount of menhaden oil was 3,372,837 

 gallons, exceeding that of whale oil by 1,115,597 gallons. 



