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Show CODFISH GALORE. Portland Bo-tstR a SJtilo PilP orOnellun-druil orOnellun-druil aixl Tlilrlocu Cnrd. Imagine 4,500 quintals, or 504,000 pounds, or 853 tons, or 113 cords of jalted cod and pollock, all neatly piled up in one building, and you will have., says the Lewiston Journal, before you the largest stock of fish in the city of Portland at the present time. It has all been brought from Nova Scotia and Newfoundland siuce the 10th of October. Octo-ber. There is one pile of fourteen tons of specially selected codfish. They were big fellows when taken from the water and weighed then from 40 to feO pounds each. Now they weigh from 25 to D5 pounds apiece. When they have been stripped of the skin, carefully boned, trimmed into slices of faultless llesh like so much clean, clear bread or cheese, and packed in boxes marked "boneless fish," they will weigh from 12- to 15 pounds apiece. Such is the shrinkage of au SO-pound codfish into the perfect food product. In the trimming trim-ming process about !J0 pounds of 'scrap" arc removed to every 1U0 pounds of the boneless slices. This is, of course, good food tissue, though it looks decidedly like "leavings."' It is sold for about 8 cents a pound. Country Coun-try rb.h peddler;; buy it, sometimes in 100 and 150 pound lots, and sell it to farmers and villagers, to make into hash, for about 10 cents a pound. The skins arc packed in barrels and sent away to Gloucester, Mass., where they are made into glue. They bring about a cent and a half a pound. The bones riell for two or three dollars a ton and arc hauled over to Cape Elizabeth to be utilized as a fertiliser for cabbages. |