MAINE SARDINE INDUSTRY. 5 
better grade known as winter-pressed oil, which they sometimes 
flavor with cloves, spice, or bay leaf, and a small amount of essen- 
tial oil for the fancy or extra fancy grades. 
Small quantities of Maine sardines are packed in tomato sauce, 
but a market for this article has not yet become widely established. 
Both the key-opening and the keyless type of cans are employed 
for this purpose. 
FOOD VALUE OF THE CANNED SARDINE. 
When well packed with a fair amount of oil, the Maine sardine 
constitutes an excellent food and gives the purchaser good value for 
the money expended. Table 1 shows the food value of sardines 
obtained for 5 and 10 cents as compared with that of various other 
common foodstuffs at the same price. 
TaBLe 1.—Comparative food value of sardines and some other common, foods. 
| Five cents bought 2— 
Selling ue per = 
Calories pounds : Calories from 
Food material. per ee Total calories. protein. 
pound.! % lbp Gerry leemenans, ork 
| 
Oct. 15, | Oct. 15; | Oct. 15, | Oct. 15; | Oct. 15, | Oct. 15, 
1915.3 | 1918.4 1915. 1918. 1915, 1918. 
| 
Sardines (in oil): | 
Lean fish— Per cent. 
1 quart of oil per case.) 975 23.2} $0.25 $0. 49 195 99 19 9 
4 quarts ofoilpercase.| 2,018 19.8 - 20 . 49 404 206 16 8 
Fat fish— | 
1 quart ofoilpercase..; 1,270 22.4 225 . 49 254 130 18 9 
; 4 quarts of oil per case- 2,309 19, 1 4 PASS -49 426 236 15 8 
Beef: 
SITIOMUSTCHK eee o. 4 985 16.5 . 259 41 190 120 13 8 
Roun Cleans Hess see 670. 19.5 E200 39 144 86 17 10 
Cheese (whole milk).........- 1,950 25.9 a2 385 424 253 23 13 
sh: 
IOS se ene es Om 165 8.4 6 IG 23 52 3 11 @ 
SEIS) ete ces kee Seis ee 315 19.0 18 25 88 63 21 15 
See ane Sek soe eae 635 11.9 . 266 426 119 75 9 6 
am: (Smoked) 222 3: beet 1,670 14.5 . 265 52 315 161 11 6 
Mit kee en ae, See ie che 325 3.3 . 044 074 369 220 15 9 
Salmon (canned)........---.-- | 680 19.5 . 198 309 172 i10 19 12 
j 1 Be irom U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations Bull. 28, except the figures 
or sardines. 
2 All prices are taken from U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics publications, ex- 
cept those for sardines and codfish. 
3 Calculated from 0.05 per 34-ounce can. 
4 Calculated from 0.10 per 34-ounce can. 
It is evident that sardines packed from fat fish in the maximum 
amount of oil have a food value greater than that of any of the other 
common food materials of animal origin, considering only the amount 
which may be procured for 5 cents, the original price of a can of 
sardines. At 10 cents per can, sardines of this quality are outranked 
by whole milk cheese, at 39 cents a pound, in the number of calories 
that can be purchased for a givensum. Even as they are ordinarily 
packed, sardines compare very favorably with the amount of other 
animal foods which can be purchased for 5 cents. While the prices 
given in Table 1 no longer obtain, the comparative differences be- 
tween them probably remain approximately unchanged. 
