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After the pilchards have remained about a month, they are cleansed from the salt, and packed in hogsheads, each of which contains two thousand four hundred fish, weighing four hundred and seventy-six pounds. Pilchards when thus cured are called "fair maids" a corruption of fumado the Spanish for smoked. Originally they were cured by smoking, but salt preserves them much better.
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