[107] FISHERIES OF THE UNITED STATES. 1137 



$25,000, and the paper wonld cost as much more. After this it 

 goes to the printer and is worked up into all kinds of labels, &c. 

 E. W. Dennison, president Dennison Manufacturing Company, 

 No. 19 Milk street, Boston, says: 'We have used the liquid 

 glue manufactured by the Gloucester Isinglass and Glue Com- 

 pany for the past six or seven years, and have found it con- 

 stantly improving. We do not know of any substitute equal 

 to it.'" 



18. Scrap book wherein liquid isinglass is used; from D. Slote &; 

 Co., of New York. "They say: ' Gentlemen : We take pleasure^ 

 in bearing testimony to the excellent quality of the liquid isin- 

 glass manufactured under John S. Rogers' patent process. We^ 

 have used it extensively and find it a very superior article/' 

 (Daniel Slote & Co., Blank Book Manufacturers, William street,. 

 New York.)" 



19. Leather belting wherein dry isinglass or glue is used. " Messrs.. 



I. B. Williams & Son, of Dover, N. H., say: 'We hare used: 

 your isinglass in cement for our leather belting for the last five^ 

 or six years, and find it superior to anything we ever used.'" 



20. Sheet glue, dried in pans, used in the manufacture of leather' 



belting. 



21. Card belting, prepared with liquid isinglass. 



22. Isinglass made from fish-skins and used in the manufacture of 



adhesive plaster, corn and bunion plasters, gummed paper,, 

 and numerous other articles. 



23. Samples of court-plaster, adhesive plasters, and corn and bunion; 



plasters, made with liquid isinglass. 



24. Spur's paper veneer, put on wood with liquid glue ; also, sam- 



ples of same from Charles W. Spurr, of Boston, Mass. 



25. Box-work where fish-glue is used for putting on velvet and' 



plush, from George W. Brooks, Boston, Mass. 



26. Liquid glue, in bottles, from fish -skins, for family use. 



27. Glues and isinglass, put up in boxes for the trade. 



28. Mechanics' liquid glue, for all kinds of wood- work, boots and 



shoes, paper boxes, &c, in cans. 



29. Sample of " frozen" fish-glue. 



FISH-GLUE AND ITS APPLICATIONS. 



Exhibit by the Russia Cement Company, Gloucester, Mass., of liquid 

 fish-glue, the skins used in its manufacture, and illustrations of its 

 use in various industries. 



1. Skins of cod (Gadus morrhna) and cnsk (Brosmius brosme), de- 

 salted and ready for cooking and pressing to extract the 

 glue. 56,905. 

 2444— Bull. 27 72 



