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Packing mackerel. 



Gang of men on Leighton's wharf, culling, salting, and packing 

 mackerel in barrels. Gloucester, Mass., 1882. Photos. 2,073-5. 

 U. S. Fish Commission. 



Dressing alewives. 



Negroes cleaning alewives preparatory to brine-salting them in 

 barrels. North Carolina. U. S. Fish Commission. 



Dressing pish. 



Cleaning and cutting up fresh fish for packing at establishment of 

 Post & Go. Sandusky, Ohio, 1882. Photo. 2,198. U. S. Fish 

 Commission. 



Packing fish. 



Interior of packing house showing dressed Ush ready to salt and 

 pack. Sandusky, Ohio, 1882. Photo. 2,202. U. S. Fish Com- 

 mission. 



Shelling clams. 



Scene on the beach at Essex River ; dories unloading clams, and 

 men and boys near clam houses shelling clams and salting in 

 barrels for bait. Essex, Mass., 1882. Photo. 1,961. U. S. 

 Fish Commission^ 



5. Preservation by canning. 

 models of canneries and canning tools. 



Sardine cannery. 



Model of cannery of Union Fish Company, showing the interior 

 arrangements on each floor for canning sardines or small her- 

 ring (Chipea harengus). Miniature models of the cans, solder- 

 ing implements, &c, are shown in position. Camden, Me. 

 Gift of Henry Sellman. 



Oyster cannery. 



(For list of apparatus and description of methods employed in 

 canning oysters, see Section D, Catalogue of Mollusca.) 



COTTON-SEED OIL AND ITS PREPARATION. 



The refined oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil in oil sardines. 



Cotton seed. 



Before liuting. Selma, Ala. 57,501. Presented by George O. 

 Baker & Co. 



