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the brine is poured in a sluice or flume and transferred to large 
reservoirs under cover. As required it is poured on large, shal- 
low sheet-iron trays under which is a hot coal fire, and the water 
is driven off by boiling. 
Events are moving swiftly in Japan. The Japan of a few 
years ago is not the Japan of today, and the Japan of the near 
future will not be the Japan of the present. In its fisheries, as 
in its entire industrial and social life, this land of the Yankees 

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of the east is responding all too quickly to the pace set by the 
Yankees of the west; and whatever the outcome of the present 
unfortunate war, the changes in existing conditions will be ac- 
celerated. We can not say what developments in the commercial 
affairs of the nation the present generation or the next may see; 
but who can doubt that Japan will continue to be our teacher in 
many things, and that her fisheries and other industries will 
become even more important at home and to the world at large ? 
