Huntsville gazette., 1883-04-21
How They Make ''Cod-OiP' at Swamp
scott.

SWampscOtt is little town upon the
coast of Massachusetts, not far from
Lynn, situated near the head of bay
between Nahant and Salem. Off this
ancient haunt of fishermen, at dis
tance of about nine miles, in a place
called the ''rocks,n where, in the win
ter, the Goldfish come in shoals to spawn,
and the striped bass sport themselves
in the summer. During the winter
months, be the weather what it may,
unless the wind be rising for gale a
little after midr.,5ht men MAY b.s sstsn
going about the village, stopping here
and there at houses, rousing the fisher
men, who BY and by gather in groups
about the shore, each with his ''dory,"
that well-known model of Yankee in
genuity which at the great Berlin fish
cry exhibition excited 50 much atten-
ton. The dories and their owners are
soon aboard the various schooners in
waiting, and by five a. m. the fleet
is at the ''rocks;" so, when the daylight
is sufficient, the dories anchor about
their respective larger crafts, each boat
with its single occupant, who is soon
hard at work robbing the sea of its life.
About three p. m. the signal is given
from the schOOners to come aboard the
dories hasten to their floating castles,
with pitchfOrks the various catches"
are soon thrown aboard, and sail is
made for home. During the passage
the fish are gutted, the entrails cast into
the sea, and the livers, some of them
large enough to fill quart mug, are
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close at hand, the fish are put again into
dOres; but the roughness of the sea usu-
ally is such that these boats, when loaded,
cannot land, and into the icy sea water
the horses are driven until the carts reach
such place that the Goldfish can be put
in them, when off they 90, to plod the
night through for the early Boston
market. The livers are Immediately
sorted over and the gall bladders care
| fully removed The great lucious,
| tlabby masses are thrown into large
oak tub; with this are connected steam
pipes. When the receptacle is full and
closed. low pressure steam is turned on,
and for about two hours and a half.
cooking goes on. Then the plugs are
taken out at the bottom, and the hot
oil streams into buckets. 1t is now
placed in butts in the cooling ROOM
and allowed to stay there until it
freezes solid. So it is kept till opportu-
nifty offers, when it is put in canvas bags
holding about four gallons each. These
bags are then placed regularly upon a
heavy oak table provided with outer
grooves for conducting liquid, until
twelve gallons are in row. On this is
laid a slab, then canvas bags. and 50
layer after layer until about eighty gal
Ions are piled up. A ton of pig iron is
then placed 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
bags is found yellowish, butter-like
mass, as hard as tallow, which is nearly
pure stearine, with liver debris and
tibers. This goes to the soap-makers,
while the oil finds its way to the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital and other
places where the superiority of the
finest American oil over the Norwegian
is recognized. - Edinbtngh Mcdica{ Jour-
nal