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is thoroughly dried in the open air, it is baled for shipment, 
much of it going to China. This business has been carried on 






















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GATHERING KELP IN HOKKAIDO. 
since about 1730; employs thousands of men, women and chil- 
dren; and is worth from $500,000 to $1,000,000 a year. 
Various alge with soft, pulpy fronds are dried by the fisher- 
