SHARK AS AN ASSET
BANE INTO BLESSING. MANY COMMERCIAL USES. LONDON, July_ 2. A Drench professor of natural history (Dr Gruvel) waxes lyrical'in describing the commercial beauties of the shark. He deplores the neglect of this fish, and ■points out that Chicago butchers pride themselves on using the entire pig “except the grunt,” but that the shark heats this, because it does not possess a useless residual voice. Ho says that the flesh of the shark is rich in proteid and phosphoric acid, and if salted dried would bo readily sold to natives in iho tropics. Sharks’ livers yield 60 per cent, of oil, rivalling cod liver oil, and_ the powdered bones enrich the best fertilisers. The intestines yield fash-glue and strings for musical instruments. What Dr Gmvel most admires, however, is the skin, which is unique, defying imitations or substitutes. A method of tanning has been discovered in America which mokes the skin into . wonderful leather. It now only remains to discover a method p£ catchinn the shark*
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Evening Star, Issue 18021, 15 July 1922, Page 4
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169SHARK AS AN ASSET Evening Star, Issue 18021, 15 July 1922, Page 4
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