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Show SEAWEED IN JAPAN. $2,000,000 Yearly Derived From It-Plans It-Plans to Increase the Crop. Washington. Japan, which wastes nothing In Its domestic economy, realizes $2,000,000 nnnunlly from Its seaweed products. According to the report of C. J. Davidson, nn attncho of the British omlmssy at Toklo, more than 60 vnrlctles of tho seaweed found along tho Jnpaneso coast nro utilized either for food or ns manufactured products. Tho traveler sees bundles ot dried seaweed, white with tho crystallized salt of tho sea water, hung from the front of every food stnll. Tho coarser varieties nro stewed nnd served with fish. Some of the ilullcnto springs of sea grass nro boiled with fish soup nnd remain a Ivid green, llontlnp against tho red lacquur of tho soup bowls. Other spcrlcs of seaweed are used In tho mnnufnctiiro of glue, of plaster and of starch. Wholo villages nre given over to seaweed llshlng and the drying and pucklng of tho product for Bhlpmcnt to the manufacturing plants In tho lurgo cities. In the country along the Kenshoro tho farm-era farm-era uso tho coarse and ropy kelp for fertilizing their vegetnblo Holds. IJurlng tho past few years tho Jap-encse Jap-encse government hns token up the subject of tho seaweed Industry fot tho purpose of giving It encourage ment. Kxporlmcnts have been carried on In many places along tho coast with a vlow to Increasing tho- yield of tho deep water nglao. Tho government govern-ment offers a reward for tho best method of producing iodine from sea plants. |
