General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Snig - is the name of a young anitmal in it's second phase of development. ...............

From - 'The Chemistry of Growth and the Food Value of
the Common Eel'
BY R. A. MoCANCE, Department of Medicine, Cambridge.


Table 1 gives the percentage composition of anitnals
at four stages of their development.

1) Elvers
2) Snigs
3) Yellow eels
4) Silver eels

RESULTS
The chemical composition of whole eels :-


The ELVERS - were
of the order of 0-25 g. in weight.

The SNIGS averaged 9-4 g.

The YELLOW EELS analyzed for Table 1 averaged 197 g.

The figures given for the
SILVER EELS are the means of one batch which averaged
197 g. and another which worked out at 1400 g.

Size made little difference to their percentage composition.

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Snig? - A 'Wigan' word? - !