162 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF FISHERIES. 
as quickly; the same fish under another mark might He in the store- 
house uncalled for for an indefinite period. When the Alaska Pack- 
ers’ Association purchased a large number of the canneries in Alaska, 
each packing salmon under many different labels, it was necessary to 
retain the brands of each individual cannery in order to hold the same 
customers. This is true also of the Pacific Packing and Navigation 
Company. 
After labeling, the pack is put in cases holding forty-eight 1-pound 
cans each. A few canneries put up 1-pound “flats,” but the major por- 
tion of the Alaska salmon is packed in 1-pound ‘‘talls.” Frequently 
the cans are labeled and cased at the same time, which work is carried 
on chiefly at or near the end of the season by the cannery employees, 
while the fishermen and crews of vessels are engaged in stripping the 
seines and gill nets and stowing them away, in taking up traps, haul- 
ing up and storing boats, scows, and lighters, and also in loading the 
ship with the pack and getting her ready for sea. The cannery 
machinery, also, must be taken apart, overhauled, oiled, given a coat 
of white lead, and put in good condition for the next season, all of 
which requires considerable labor. During the winter months the 
canneries are in charge of watchmen. 
