so 



sharks, of which the herring oil forms the chief production, that 

 of sardines coming next. Each of these is a bye-product from 

 the manufacturing of fish fertilizer called fish guano. With the 

 gradual increase in the use of sardines and herrings as foodstuffs 

 the output of oil shows some decline, but herrings can be caught 

 in large number at a time so that a greater part of them must 

 necessarily be used as fertilizers. The output of herring oil 

 under the circumstances is so shown from the fact that it takes 

 up 70 per cent of the fish oil exported from Japan. As a 

 result of the prosperous condition of the herrings the output of 

 whale oil has considerably increased, the principal varieties being 

 sulphur-ballam whale, hump back whale, dike whale but the 

 amount of sperm whale oil is not very large. With an excep- 

 tion of the last variety the Japanese use the meat of the whale 

 as food stuff so that the output of oil is not of a uniform amount 

 in case the price of oil is high its output is increased otherwise 

 it shows a decline. Cod-liver oil is used both for technical 

 and medical purposes. It is made from the cod fish, the chief 

 productive district being the north-eastern part of Japan where 

 they manufacture medical cod liver oil of superior quality. 



(4) The Coral and Coral works Exhibited by 



Gembei Yamada, Mankichi Morita, Masaki Torikai, 

 Sakutaro Inouye, Kagoshima Prefecture Coral Ex- 

 hibits Association, Norichika Yamaoka, Tokumatsu 

 Motobe, Heikichi Kubota, Utaro Arisawa, Hiro- 

 kichi Shinowara, Semmatsu Sakaye, Junichiro 

 Okubo, Naojiro Shimizu, Heiichiro Takahashi. 

 The chief coral producing districts in Japan are Nagasaki, 

 Kochi, and Kagoshima Prefectures. The output of which 

 although varying in amount from year to year does not fall 



