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supply plentiful materials for hides and furs, but the hides of 

 seals are exported as salted so that the animals used for trading 

 purposes are dolphins, sea lions, sharks, sea eel, albatross and 

 other white birds. The hides of all these animals, as well as 

 the feathers are made into shoes, trunk?, purses and other 

 works, the principal maker of these furs is the Oriental Sea 

 Animal Hides Tannery, whose exhibits are made in this ex- 

 hibition. 



(lo) Whalebone and their Works Exhibited by 



The Oriental Whaling Company. 



Within recent years as a result of the whaling industry, the 

 method for utilization of captured whales has made a consider- 

 able progress. 



The whalebones which used to be exported in their crude 

 condition are now worked into various articles. The Oriental 

 Whaling Co. the exhibitor of these articles is the chief manu- 

 facturer. These are made into cigarete cases, cuffs, corsets etc. 



Piscicultnre. 



Of late pisciculture also is making a steady progress partly 

 owing to the encouragement given by the Government and 

 partly to the attention paid by fishermen and farmers to the 

 utilization of water. Japan has no small number of rivers, 

 streams, lakes ^and pools while the coast lines have many 

 indentations which are well adapted to the introduction of fresh 

 water so that there are a number of places for pisciculture. Con- 

 sequently from times gone by, in the shallow places of the sea, 

 lavas (porphyra) oysters and pearls have been cultured, and in 

 the lakes, carps, eels and snapping turtles. The artificial hatching 

 of salmon and trout has been practiced in various districts of 



