Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1920 — CUTTLEFISH FULL OF TRICKS [ARTICLE]

CUTTLEFISH FULL OF TRICKS

Denizen of the Deep That Has Distinct Commercial Value—ls, j . Adept at Camouflage. Under the skin of the back of the cuttlefish, or the squid, as this relative of the devilfish Is also known, is a bone (its substitute for a skeleton), which affords to caged birds a suitable substance to sharpen their beaks upon. Oddly enough, no American species of squid furnishes a satisfactory cuttlebone? These bones come from China or from the Mediterranean. Cuttlebone ground to powder Js an Important ingredient of dentifrices. The “Ink” thrown out by the animal to cloud the water when trying to escape furnishes the “sepia” of commerce, being dried and pressed into cakes, it enters also into the composition of “India ink.” . The cuttlefish has a beak of it* mackS bitogTtrJ annular piece out of the nehk of each fish and killing at every snap by severfully greedy creatures and will devour ■ their own kiuu wiui avuiiy. , The mackerel when grown, faka _ 11. -- j.rtnj-rnw animato ♦‘Ho dwell In the sea feed largely upow 1 chang-