of infeét food. 
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For an account of the remarkable migration 
feos (a faét, however, which fome have difputed, fee 
prea), and the hiftory of the fifhery, &c. fee Herring 
Fie HERY. 
They are in full roe at the end of June, and continue in 
siiteoh till the Pas ning of winter, when they begin to 
depofit their fpaw 
here are avers names given to preferved herrings, ac- 
— to the different mode in which they are managed : 
1. Sea-flicks. 'Thefe are fuch as are caught all the fifhin 
feafon, and are but once packed. A barrel of thefe holds fix 
or eight hundred ; eight barrels go to the ton, by law 
100 of herrings is to be a 120; a latt is 10,000 5 and they 
—. reckon 14 barrels to the laft. 
Crux herrings ; Sowhich are Gich as are caught after the 
14th of September. Thefe are cured with that kind of falt 
called falt upon falt, and = Caen forted out, all fall 
eS and ufed in repack 
Thefer ferve to make red eet 
belay ca sf are taken in the Yarmouth feas, from ote 
of Auguft to the middle of for a provided th 
carried afhore within a wee or lefs, after they are 
taken. Thefe are never gipped, biit rowed in falt, for the 
etter preferving of them, till they can be brought on fhore ; 
and fuch as are kept to make red herrings, are wafhed ‘in 
eat vats in frefh water before they are hung up in the 
a hangs, or red-herring houfes. 
or the manner of falting herrings ; the nets being 
baled on board , the fifhes 
are taken out, and put into the 
When 
ive. ‘to pic €] 
barrel headed. The p: 
fuftain a ithe. ee the fifth decay in 
Herring Fisuenry 
It is volatile to cS = = me Ses = fea, 
ermen come into t 
- be drawn to the te 3t "Ele IL. ftat, 2. No herring 
before 
he cable of the thip eive 
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any +elfe, but where the barfel contains 
half-hartel and firkin accordingly ; and 
A 
fhall be i Id ; 
32 gallons, as 
they muft be nd 
falting, and b, 
pain 2 fortthein 
IV. 
ed and fworn in all fihing-ports, &c. under 
the penalty “ef 1oo/, flat. 15 Car. II. cap. 1 For other 
regulations, fae Herring Fishery.)  Freth rerrings, confi- 
dered as a , are faid to be very good aliment, if ufed 
ert > but if taken i in quantities difproportioned to 
€ po 
alcalefcent aliment : 
F alin; the flefh being 
and fcarcely “Tigehible by the vital powers 
re lefs injurious than thofe which are falted 
alk 
,confequences of ‘hig 
errings are very 
but paakied 
rendered har 
— howeve}. . 
d dried. 
2 
2 
-Herrine- ii a veffel ufed in the herring-fifhery. See 
Buss and Fi TERY. 
= is a young herring. See Herring Fisn- 
HERninc 7 ery. See Herring FIsHER 
HERRInG-$,77."in Ornithology, the name aE a bird of the 
— kind, Coed ‘i; 
y authors /arus cinereus maximus, OF the 
&rey 841, and by Linnezus the Larus Fu/cus ; which 
deales, i in Agriculture, the fcales and other refufe 
wil wal me e¢ted in the various places where herrings are 
ti are found to be highly beneficial as a ma- 
been long fince fuggefted by Mr. Young, that, 
Gther forts of manure, the farmers about Leoft off 
= rk s. The herrings are wafhed in large de 
fcales as come of in the procefs are difpofed of to the fers 
ers at about fi x:pence the laft, which are the fcales of 10,000 
errings. The manner of ufing {cales of this fort is that of 
fowing them apn wheat on clover Jays, having them har- 
rowed in with the ¢ m which management confiderable 
benefit is rie fed to be derived. And it is feels that 
ale pi a advantage ear probaly be drawn 
s have been seated, as 
be oily, bloody, and a frongly impregnated with 
Sey 
fer in whic e 
it is found to 
the {mell oft 
~ he fifh, It is hinted that this water m1 ee be ee 
received mate rvoirs, contrived at but little expence ; from 
which it might oecafion ly be drawn off, and edly z 
bieraiae 1 Carts, fimilar to thofe employed in the roads 
—— O's, either dire€tly to the grounds which are m ¢ 
pepper Hate OF preparation re its oo or to a heap © 
hy mat als, which are ed to be formed into com- 
poft. Turf o 
Ress h ere the beft effe _ = 
At is, howe. confelfed, a the probability of — ae 
from the ae of fuch water, is 10 ; 
at 
ma won Areffing, and the sther this kind off cs 
Watering-pot or other fimilar means, the P : 
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