. Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1902. DISCHARGING MENHADEN FROM VESSEL BY MEANS OF DISCHARGING MENHADEN FROM STEAMER BY MEANS OF BUCKET ELEVATOR, AT PROMISED LAND, NEW YORK. AQUATIC PKODUCTS AS FERTILIZERS. 259 3 or 4 quarts of oil to the barrel. This oil is of good color and isreadily fcold for menhaden oil, but the scrap is not quite so desirablefor fertilizer as that from menhaden. Skates and bellows-fish are com-paratively dry, yielding less than one pint of oil to the barrel of fish. Owing to much contention resulting from the claim that with themenhaden l
. Report of the Commissioner for the year ending June 30, 1902. DISCHARGING MENHADEN FROM VESSEL BY MEANS OF DISCHARGING MENHADEN FROM STEAMER BY MEANS OF BUCKET ELEVATOR, AT PROMISED LAND, NEW YORK. AQUATIC PKODUCTS AS FERTILIZERS. 259 3 or 4 quarts of oil to the barrel. This oil is of good color and isreadily fcold for menhaden oil, but the scrap is not quite so desirablefor fertilizer as that from menhaden. Skates and bellows-fish are com-paratively dry, yielding less than one pint of oil to the barrel of fish. Owing to much contention resulting from the claim that with themenhaden large quantities of choice food-fish are taken and renderedat the factories, the United States Fish Commission, in the season of1894, made a thorough inspection of the catches made by two repre-sentative steamers of the fleet. This examination showed that in acatch of 27,965,750 fish only one-third of 1 per cent were food-fish,and only a ver}^ small proportion of this percentage was of choice andpopular varieties. As a general thing not enough desirable food-fisli are taken by the menhaden steamers to keep the
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