It had driven with force right up on the reef, ripping out the bottom and dumping thousands of dead menhaden into the water.
Cap'n Mike motioned to the two boys and led the way up the gangplank just as a scoop full of menhaden rose from the hold and passed overhead.
A whiff of departed menhaden smote his nose forcefully and he added grimly, "Believe me, it'll be a pleasure!
The marine animal oils, especially the menhaden oil mixtures, dried to a film slightly flatter than straight linseed oil.
When mixed with linseed oil paints the odor of menhaden oil is sometimes noticeable, but it disappears entirely after such paints are applied.
It is produced by steam digestion and pressure of the menhaden or "piogey" fish, which are caught in great quantities off the Atlantic Coast.
After the value of menhaden oil was recognized many makeshift menhaden fish factories were established along the coast of Maine and elsewhere on the northern coast.
The menhaden products, oil and green scrap in bulk, were carried back to the same city by sailing vessels.
The following government report is probably the first of the menhaden industry of the Chesapeake and its tributaries.
It was not until about 1850 that the value of menhaden oil was recognized.
An elderly lady by the name of Bartlett, from Bluehill, Maine, came to my store with a sample of oil which she had skimmed from a kettle in boiling menhaden for her hens.
Others claim to have manufactured menhadenoil at about the same time.
In 1792 a paper published in New York gave directions concerning the use of fish as a fertilizer: "Experiments made by using the fish called menhaden or mossbankers as a manure have succeeded beyond all expectation.
He built there, at Point Pleasant, the first menhaden plant on the Chesapeake Bay.
Menhaden were used to some extent as a food by watermen for many years but it does not appear probable that they were ever extensively used for food except in seasons of scarcity.
By the end of the Civil War the menhaden catch along the coast of Maine was beginning to drop off.
When fishing for these in the swift tideways, menhaden bait is used.
The Menhaden make their appearance in the spring with the arrival of the shad, alewife, blue-fish, and weak-fish.
The bass are attracted by casting chopped menhaden upon the water.
It preys, as do the latter, upon menhaden and mackerel.
This place, like many neighboring sea-coast hamlets, was busily engaged in the mackerel and menhaden fishery.
The whole process of rendering menhaden into oil is less offensive to the olfactories than might be supposed.
The product of menhadenis chiefly used in the adulteration of linseed-oil.
The mackerel are gone, the bluefish are going, the menhaden are gone, every year the amberjack and kingfish grow smaller and fewer.
I have already discussed this question at length with reference to the menhaden and mackerel.
Like the tuna, the bluefish, the bonito, and the squiteague, they pursue and prey upon the schools of menhaden and mackerel, which are so abundant in the summer months.
Menhaden have been seen floating at the surface which have been cut nearly in twain by a blow of a sword.
At one place this resemblance was greatly strengthened by a vast area of cloud, uniformly illuminated, and lying like a névé below the peaks.
But, knowing that organic particles may pass unscathed through alkalies and acids, the results of Dr.
The celebrated Benjamin Franklin placed bits of cloth of various colours upon snow, exposed them to direct sunshine, and found that they sank to different depths in the snow.
It actually can fuse gold, silver, copper, and aluminium.
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