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Show Various Nations Find I Good Uses for Seaweed J What salt water bather, who has been tangled In seaweed, or niotor-boat niotor-boat owner wliu.se propeller has ; been eloped ,y the marine growth, can Imagine that Japan harvested A7)t),iHM)y,:n) pounds last year; that the United States Imports about 5,0 ) tons annually; and that the United States lias a seaweed Industry Indus-try on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts? Seaweed has been consumed as food by the Japanese, Chinese and Hawaiian.? for many centuries, 1 while Irish moss and seaweed prod-j prod-j ucts have graced the American j table In various forms since Colonial Colo-nial days, when it was Imported from England, says the National Geographic society. An early use of the weed was as fertilizer by farmers near the sea. Today, besides serving as fertilizer fer-tilizer and food, it Is an ingredient ingredi-ent of fine paper knife handles and oriental curios. Kamchatka natives na-tives use Its hollow stems as colls for distilleries, while Australians have discovered a species from which cloth, rope, twine and mats can be made. |