Show CARRIES WEALTH IN MOUTH bowhead whale worth much money if only that part of its anatomy were usable A full grown bowhead whale is worth merely for the whalebone it carries in III its mouth this is the specie that furnishes the hulk bulk of the commercial supply of whalebone which Is now worth a pound it is a denizen of arctic seas the bowhead like other oilier whalebone NAlI whales ales III has as no teeth instead its jaws are furn furnis klied lied willi a series of long tapering slabs of a 11 horny substance allce fringed with hair of these slabs which blell are the whalebone ot of coin commerce merce there are as many as GOO COO the biggest of them are 10 to 32 12 feet long an aal they tire are inserted in the gurn gum of the lie upper jaw from which they liang hang they serve as a sieve to strain out olit the AA whales hales food swimming along it takes a huge mouthful of and other pelagic small fry then the huge trap Is closed find and the maliq entering and fitting into grooves in the lie lower jaw the water Is expelled |