Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1913 — VALUABLE SEAWEED. [ARTICLE]

VALUABLE SEAWEED.

Fut to Many Uses by the Coast ers of Japan. “A large income is*derived by the Inhabitants of the coasts of Japan from gathering and selling ordinary seaweed,” sgid Jeremiah King of At lantic City. “More than 3,000,000 yen is derived by the harvesters of the deep each year. This does not include the large amount df the product consumed by the natives. “Certain kinds of Beaweed are used for food and Its by-products represenl thousands of dollars annually. As choice a dessert as I ever have eaten from weeds gathered on the southern coast of Japan. This mixed with sugar and sprinkled with rum makes a dessert rarely equaled on this side of the Atlantic. .“There are families on the coast of Japan whose ancestors for hundreds of years have lived entirely from the proceeds of the seaweed gathered from March to November and sold for food. The natives anchor branches of trees at the mouths of the rivers which flow Into the ocean. The Incoming tide deposits seaweed on the branches. The natives gather it, dry It and after mincing It with huge knives sell it in large quantities.”