EASTERN BUYER MAKES
STUDY OF ALASKA HERRING
A. J. Edvlson, representing Mon
cl and Co., recently returned to New
York after a four months' visit to
.-bottle. where he has been looking
after purchases of Alaska herring and
other salt fish, says the Pacific Fish
erman. Commenting on the season’s
paek, .Mr. Kdelson says large herring
such as ate most wanted In the mar
ket. running up to 11 Vj to 12 inches
in size, have been scarce, running only
11miiit 7 to S per cent of the pack in
Prince William sound and even less in
southeast Alaska.the bulk of^the pack
running from 8"0 to 1.200 to the
Su long as tile catch consists so
largely of small flsli. Mr. Kdelson does
not look for much expansion of the
herring salting industry in Alaska
but he believes that it could be built
up in quite a large way, regardless of
present competitive conditions, if the
packers would drift with gill nets, as
tlii v have learned to do In the Scotch
fishery, and get a large proportion of
largo fish. He believes that large
fat Alaska herring, like those from
Prim e William sound, when properly I
Scotch cured, will always find a. mar
ket in New York at prices that will ,
bo profitable to pnekers«pro\-ided such i
fish form a reasonably large proper
tion < t the catch. To secure this re
sult. In wever, met rods • f fishing must
be much more W.iKv ueveloped ti.-ui'
Newfoundland herring, he cays, do
not compete with large Alaska Scotch
cure, and can affect prices for the
latter only in a limited and indirect
way; the only real competition being
fioni the best imported Scotch herring
the supply of which available for th<*
American market is usually limited.
At the present time fancy fat Alaska
herring of .’>00 to fiOO count is the onb
thing of the kind on tin* market. On
the other hand, small and full Alaska
herring has to meet competition from
various quarters.nand prices are com
paratively low in consequence.
He emphasizes the need of greate
care in packing (though a number of
packers have made a notable imp
rovement over last year) and in gen
oral of a greater desire to meet th»
dcfimnds of buyers. I'p to a few years
ag<*. he says, the herring packers ot
Scotland were working in the dark,
without much knowledge of what their
markets required. The success of the
Scotch industry dates from the time
when they began to adapt their meth
ods to the preferences of the markets
in which the goods were to he sold;
and now a different cure is used for
each Important market:.one for New
York, one for central Europe, one for
I’etrograd district, and another for
southern liussia, etc.
He finds that the principle of the
Scotch cure is still very imperfectly
understood by many puckers on the
Pacific coast, the usual tendency be
ing u> oversalt. In this connection
one 'instance is cited of a pack which
was very much oversalted, though no
salt appeared in the barrels, and it
was found later that the herring had
been originally stilted according to the
Norway-cure standard, and the goods
afterward repacked, and surplus salt
removed. This, obviously, does not
constitute a Scotch cure, and the pro
duct is not acceptable to the trade.
Scotch-cured herring is packed ac
cordfng to certain standard methods,'
demonstrated on the cons*, last year
b.v Au*y. H. I). Kile and previously
described in the columns of the Pacific
Hslterman; and when this method is
correctly followed th£ fish is much
more- preferable than those packed by
the Norwegian method formerly in
general use on the coast.
The method of shipping Alaska
hen-big in oars with the heads of the
barrels up. Mr ICdelson says, lias
caused same difficulty, as the top-tier
of herring often stands up out of the.
pickle and when a shipment is long
in transit the fish on top are found to1
be rusted. He suggests that if it1
could he found possible to load the]
bands op their bilges this trouble I
might be overcome.—Alaska Dis-!
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VOTE FOR
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FOR DELEGATE FROM ALASKA
ELECTION TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 2nd, 1920.
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SAYS IT WAS A
LONG HMD FIGHT
SEVERAL TIMES REMPEL HAD
GIVEN UP ALL HOPE
PRAISES TANLAO.
“It's b««n a Ion*, hard fight for me,
but, thanks to Tanlac, I’m winning
out at Inst," said John Itempel, care
taker at the Assiniboine Apartment
house at 355 Assiniboine avenue, Win
nipeg, in relating his exporlence with
the medicine, recently.
"For years," he continued, “I have
suffered from indigestion, rheumatism
and other troubles and several times
I Just thought die I would. My ap
petite was very poor and I could eat
nothing hut what would bloat me up
so with sour gns that 1 could hardly
get my breath. This gas would get
up into my chest and throat and cause
my heart to Jump and palpitate until
I would get so weak and faint that I
could hardly move. Then again my
heart just seemed to stop heating and
many a night I have had to sit straight
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struggling for breath, and at these
times I felt like 1 was going to die.
Many a time I was flat of my back in
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Winter I was laid up for two weeks
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My kidneys were also in bad shape and
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a knife had been sticking through it.
Besides all this, I had rheumatism in
my legs so bad I could hardly get
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get so stiff and painful that I could
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I Just had to hold on to the banisters
and pull myself up the stairs and
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I would get up in the mornings with
my knees so stiff ami aahy that I
would have to rub and work with them
for sometime before I could get about
"So I say I had a long hard light,
used many different kinds of liniments
ajul medicines, and it just looked like
I was going to lose out entirely before
I could get any help. At last I got
Tanlac and my only regret is that I
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| ing like a new man already and have
I Just finished my third bottle. It has
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' ing me. I used to think my short
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but I believe now It was from indiges
tion. for since the gas has stopped
forming on my stomach I seldom have
any trouble getting my breath. T
can lie down and sleep the whole njght
through and breathe almost as free
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ly for I seldom feel a pain and can go
up and down the stalite without any
trouble. My kidneys are also in good
shape and the pain In my back is so
much better that I hardly notice it
any more. I have Improved so much
in every way that everybody here in
the apartments has noticed It and
spoken of it. Tanlac Is by far the
.best medicine I have ever been able
to find and I have the best of reasons
for praising It."
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