USES FOR SEAWEED.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13108, 17 May 1911, Page 1

USES FOR SEAWEED.

When wo see the tangled masses of seaweed washed up on the/ beach, we little conceive that it has any commercial value. The fact is that on ftho British coast 400,000 tons of seaweed are collected every year. From thci kelp into which' it is burned chemists manufacture iodine and bromide, besides valuable chlorides and silicates. Thousands of Japanese and Chineso almost live on seaweed France collects 8,000,000 pounds yearly, which is used in the manufacture of mattresses. The Irish convert seaweed into valuable jellies, and make other useful'foods out of it. All alo:i,» the coast of Nova Scotia the farmeis collect what is known as Nova Scotia eel grass, which is shipped daily to Boston, to be, used in the wadding oi airtight, noiseless floors, besides making the finest of filling for upholstery and serving other useful purposes'. Thousands of farmers make money cut of collecting the grasses and marine substances that grow along the shores. By a wise provision of tho law, nobody is allowed to fence it in, at least below high-water mark.