. Fig. 3.—,EBOX1': ik'LM ]i[.ri., axi> 1 \\i!\i,i LI r OUT EXTIK1-; FKOM THii Ufl'liR The inner mat-like surface is seen. manufacturers of explosives for extraction of glycerine. The lower grades are chiefly used for the manufacture of lubricating greases. The average yield of the three commoner species of finner is : Sei whale, ten barrels ; Common Finner, fifteen to seventy barrels; Blue whale, fifty to seventy barrels. The whalebone plates are separated, scrubbed, and soaked in warm soda solution, washed in wai^m water, and dried in the open air. When dry they are packe
. Fig. 3.—,EBOX1': ik'LM ]i[.ri., axi> 1 \\i!\i,i LI r OUT EXTIK1-; FKOM THii Ufl'liR The inner mat-like surface is seen. manufacturers of explosives for extraction of glycerine. The lower grades are chiefly used for the manufacture of lubricating greases. The average yield of the three commoner species of finner is : Sei whale, ten barrels ; Common Finner, fifteen to seventy barrels; Blue whale, fifty to seventy barrels. The whalebone plates are separated, scrubbed, and soaked in warm soda solution, washed in wai^m water, and dried in the open air. When dry they are packed in sacks. The baleen from fin whales gives fourteen sacks to the ton. Most of the whalebone goes to Paris, where it is used in the form of fine threads woven into silken fabrics for stiffening purposes. It is extremely difficult to convey an adequate idea of the enormous size of these creatures, but when you see six men exerting all their strength to turn over a relatively small portion of the whale's skull which has been cut off from the rest, you get some idea of their size and weight. It is doubtful whether whaling will last very long under present conditions. There is general agreement that in the future whaling all over the world should be subjected to regulations for the protection of the few remaining cetacea. All the older " Fisheries "— the Basque fishery of the Bay of Biscay for the Nord- caper (Balcena biscayensis), the Greenland or Spits- bergen fishery for the Greenland Right whale (Balana mysticetus), and the great Cachalot fisheries for the Sperm whale [Physeter macrocephalus)—came to an end through overfishing. In no case has there been a recovery of the species sufficient for a resumption of fishing, even after an unavoidable close time for over a century. The great objection to whaling as at present carried on is that so many pregnant females or females with suckling young are killed ; theoretically, there is a prohibition against the killing
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