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a black, and are employed in rural districts for that pur- 
pose ; but while we possess so many and better substances 
alike applicable, and plenty of alder-berries for the trouble 
of gathering them, it is not likely that we shall receive 
many samples of Yasza-bushit from Japan, unless it can 
be shown that the larger cones have an increased tinctorial 
value. 
ear tneR THE SUPPLY OF FISH FROM THE 
Saye PISHERIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. TS IN- 
CREASING, STATIONARY, OR DIMINISHING > 
Continued from page 256. 
HE returns from Howth give the particulars of the 
herring fishery there, which, within the last six or 
eight years, has grown from a smalland uncertain business 
toa gross produce which last year realized upwards of 
94,0007. Further up St. George’s Channel, the Manx boats 
continue to be successful, and in Loch Fyne, in the Firth of 
Clyde, vast hauls are occasionally taken. At certain times, 
indeed the sea is really teeming with this fish, and the 
state of the weather, or the restrictions enforced by capri- 
cious legislation, are often the only causes of a temporary 
failure in the catch. 
The pilchard fishery, though limited to the coasts of 
Cornwall and Devon, is a source of great profit there, 
and continues a yield equal, on the average, to that of 
any former cycle of years. The price to the consumer 
does not appear to have increased. 
The shrimp fishery is becoming of some magnitude, and 
is very profitable to the fishermen. It is annually increas- 
ing in productiveness, not only on the same fishing grounds, 
but by the fishermen removing to new and untrted grounds, 
for the produce of which railways have rendered markets 
accessible. 
There can be no better test of the supply of any commo- > 
dity than the price it fetches through a series of years. In 
examining this part of the question, it is necessary to con- 
sider the vast increase of the range of consumers of fresh 
fish which has taken place, within recent years, by the ex- 
tension of railway communication from the fishing ports to 
all the important towns inthe kingdom. There is not now 
