Show Pro preparing paring cod tor for market salt cod llah is ia a popular article of diet but many who ure lira tend of it have no idea of the ho method by which it is ia prepared pra pared th the principal industry lo newfoundland Is ia the tha cod flavory anil and the chief center ol of the trails is at st johns where the process ot of packing anil and thos tho altea fish may a to perfection the having lean been dried on stages erect oil for or the pur on no the shores ol of every bay unit sod inlet of 0 the lala Isla ail tad are brought to st jowa johns ia small ers lad I 1 brown in beabe upon lapon the tha w harvest 0 t tile merchants there they are culled over sorted into thre etor lour piles riling 9 to their quality callers who wh separate the g gried good ried from the wit ferent and tho the from the boil bail with great rapidity and unerring skill women with hand hana burrows attend poll the cullers callers carry tho the fish into tin an adjoining shod anil and upset their loads beside barrels standing blanding rondy ready to ro cebre coire them A couple of boys throw the flail fish into a ouk piling them up a foot or so I 1 bove above tle tho brim mount on the top and having danced a war lance dance apon them theca in their hobnailed hob bob nailed boots to pack them down roll the tha ba barrel r rel under a screw press whore whole two raon man stand ready to take chargo charge of it grasping the tha ends of the long arms arma 0 of f tho the levert lever the men man ran ann a couple of tire times 28 lift it their feet off the ground and throwing their weight on tho the lover to nad add impetus to the blow owing awing round with it and bring down the stamp with a anti thud bac I 1 or ill alit od fisli into it ft compact mass tho the CUBIC is ia then out from under tho the pross and landed handed over to tw two coopers in it trice the ilia hoops aro driven dri renon on tile tha cask is headed up end and then trundled down all aa iodine into the hold of ionic deabel loading lending tor for the west weal indies or some mediterranean lit A the rapidity with which the whole process Is ia managed is N nineteenth nth century Cont nry |