The Canning Of Fishery Products

Author : John N. Cobb
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ISBN 13 : 9781332109074
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Canning of Fishery Products written by John N. Cobb and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Canning of Fishery Products: Showing the History of the Art of Canning When I began my active fishery career there were but few persons who knew much about the art of canning fishery products, and these were chary about imparting what they knew to others, who might, in time, develop into competitors. On many occasions I was approached by seekers after information along these lines, and in endeavoring to help them I soon discovered that there was not then, and the same holds true today, available any work which treated at length and fully upon the canning of fishery products, and that what little had been published was in very fragmentary shape and inaccurate in many ways. Appreciating the great need of such a work, I began some years ago to collect data for same, and an intimate connection with the fishing industry of the United States for twenty-four years - part of that time as editor of the Pacific Fisherman of Seattle, Wash., the organ of the great fisheries of the Pacific, and as a practical canner, but mainly as Field Agent of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, in the course of which I have visited, some of them many times, practically every fishing camp and packing plant in the United States proper, Alaska and Hawaii, also various plants in Canada and Mexico - greatly aided the work. Most of the processes described have been developed in the canneries, where they have stood the test of many years' actual work. The book is written for the cannery operator, and not for chemists or bacteriologists, and as a result has been made as non-technical as possible so as to be easily understood by those for whom it is written, but few of whom are versed in the sciences of chemistry and bacteriology. I am indebted to so many sources, both official and private, for information used in this work, that it is impossible to name them all, but the following were especially helpful: Dr. Hugh M. Smith, U.S. Commissioner of Fisheries; Dr. E. D. Clark, A. W. Hansen and H. D. Davi, of the U.S. Bureau of Chemistry; Frank L. Gorrell, Secretary of the National Canners' Association; Capt. E. E. Hahn, of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries: John G. Ruge, of Apalachicola, Florida; N. B. Scofield and his assistants of the California Fish and Game Commission; and the various Superintendents of the Alaska Packers Association. I am especially indebted to my wife and daughter for the practical testing and working out of certain processes given in the work, more especially those relating to secondary products, and also for much valuable assistance in other lines. Many of the illustrations are from the exceedingly valuable collection of the Pacific Fisherman of Seattle, Wash., while others were made from photographs taken by the author. The U.S. Bureau of Fisheries kindly permitted the reproduction of drawings of certain fishes from its large and valuable collection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.