Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1883-04-14
How "Cod OIL" is Made.

The Edinburgh MdiGI Journal
thus describes one of the important
though unsavory inter SITS of Swamp
scott, Mass: SwampscJtt is a little
town upon the coast of Mas achusetts,
not far from Lynn, situated near the
lead of a bay between Nail;nt and
Salem. Off this ancient haunt of
fishermen, at a distance of about nine
miles, is place called the "rocks,"
where. in the winter, the DIFF h come
in shoals to spawn and thsstriped bass
sport tnems, Ives in the summer.
During the winter months, be the
weather what it may, unless re wind
be rising for gale, little after mid
night m, n may be seen gling about
the village, stopping here and thee at
houses, rousing the Fl 'hermen, who by
and-bye gather in glou.Is about the
s ore, each with his "dory," that we'll
known model Of Yankee ingenuity
VIII h at the great Berl fishery ex-
hib. ton excited so mu attention.
The dories and their owners are soon
aboard the various schooners in wait
ing, and'at A. NJ the fleet is at the
"rocks;" so, when the daylight is sutfi-
cient. the dories anchor about tn ir re-
spective larger crafts, each b. at with
its single occupant hard at work rob-
bling t. e sea of its life. A out 3 P. NJ.
the signal is given from the schooners
to come aboard; the dories hasten to
their floating castles, with pit 'ufOrks
the various ''tas hes" are SOON thrown
aboard. and sail is made for home,
During the passage the fish are Quilted
and the entrails are cast into the sea-,
and the livers, some of them large,
enough to fill quart mug, are put into
baskets. When the shore is close at
hand the fish are put again into,
dories; but the roughn IS of the sea
usually is such that these boats. when
loaded, cannot land, and into the icy
sea water the horses are DIR ven until
the carts reach such a place that the
Goldfish can b put in the IL, when off
they go t. plod the night through for
the early Boston market. TIE
livers are imm dat ly sorted over
and the gall .badd rs care
fully removed. The or at lus -ious
tlabby masses are thrown into "a large
oak tub; with this are come ted steam
pipes. When the receptaCl is full and
closed, w pressure steam is turned on,
and for about two hours and half
cooking go s on. Then the plugs are
taken out at the bottom and the hot oil
strea ms into buckets. 1t is now placed
in butts in the cooling-ro M" and al
lowed to stay there until it f'eezes
slid. So it is kept Till opportunity
offers, when it is put in canvas bags
olling about four gallons euh. These
bags are tn p aced regula Il upon a
heavy oak tale provided with outer
grooves for conducting liquid, until
twelve gallons are in row. On this
is laid a slab, then canvas bags, and
so, lay after lay r, until about eighty
gallons ale piled up. A ton IF pig-irOn
is then pa ed upon the top slab OF oak,
and the oil begins to flow out. In about
twelve hours dripping ceases and the
apparatus is taken apart. Inside of
the ba IS is foun yellowish, butter
ike mass as hard as tallow, which is
nearly pure stearine, with liver debris
and fibers. This goes TO the soap
makers, while the oil finds it's way to
the Massarhus tits General hospital
and other places where the superiority
of the finest American oil over the
Norwegian is recognized.