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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[December, 
of the season's work. The net ivitH which the 
fish are caught is peculiarly managed — it is about 
one hundred and ten fathoms in length, and pro- 
vided with corks on one side aud iron rings on 
are thus brought near the surface, and loaded 
on board the " carryaways," to be taken to the 
factory's dock. At the factory the fish are 
measured either in cars or boxes, and are drawn 
hydraulic press. The oil and the water absorb- 
ed by the fish in boiling are pressed out through 
the slats aud carried by leaders to the tanks in 
the shed by the side of the factory, where the 
ITU A LOADED " CARRYAWAY " RETI'KNINt 
the other. When a school of fish is discovered, 
the two seine boats, each bearing its portion of 
the seine, are started off noiselessly in opposite 
directions aud rapidly surround the fish. As 
upon the railway to the tanks, where they are 
thrown into water, and a full head of steam 
turned on into the bottom of the tank, which 
contains some sixteen to eighteen thousand fish. 
oil man skims, boils, and otherwise prepares it 
for barreling. As soon as the pressure is t:iken 
off, the curb slowly resumes its position on the 
railway, and is pushed to where a man stands 
DRAWING THE 
soon as this is accomplished, the boats having 
formed a circle and coming together, the ends of 
the net are joined. The seine now encloses the 
fish, being kept in a vertical position by means 
After thirty minutes' cooking, the water is 
drained off, and a man getting into the tank 
fills the curbs, which are circular, aud formed 
of strong wooden slats, bound and lined with 
ready to remove the cheese as it falls from the 
curb, upon the opening of its hinged bottom." 
This cheese, or scrap cake, is ground to dif- 
ferent degrees of fineness, to form the fish- 
Fig. 3. — INTERIOR OF POT WOK! 
of the cork floats. Ropes pass through these 
rings and are attached to the "Tom," a heavy 
leaden weight, which is thrown overboard, and, 
by drawing the ropes, purses the net. The fish 
heavy iron. These are rolled under a solid 
stationary head fitting closely the inside of the 
curb, and against which the fish are pressed, 
as the curb is slowly but powerfully raised by a 
gunno ; this substance, being rich in ammonia- 
producing material, is used by some manufac- 
turers of fertilizers to supply ammonia to phos- 
phates that are deficient in that constituent. 
