Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-09-10
THE OYSTER SEASON.
Lively Opening of the Trade in New York
What the Gotham Palate Graves.
New \ Iork Times

What the Gotham Palate Graves.
New York Times.
Those who know the oyster and know
what good oyster is will rejoice to hear
that the outlook for Rockaways and Blue
Points was never better than now. Out
West, where people regard the oyster
as simply a soft thing between two soft
shells although they are likely to see
them floating in buckets-the yellow
Shrewsbury and the late Summer oyster
are already abundant, Western enter
prise having determined to forestall
Eastern custom by beginning the sea
son on August 20, instead of September
l. This has given the wholesale oyster
men who do business along the North
river front from West Tenth street to
Perry street plenty of occupation for
their boats, and has filled them full of
enthusiasm over the coming season.
The city business is expected to start
i'll with rush. Hotels and restaurants
and the retail dealers have filled orders
which will make tomorrow red-letter
day for the wholesale men. 4 singular
thing about these orders is that nearly
every one wants the same kind of oyst-
ers. Shrewsburys may be good enough
for Westerners, but the home palate has
passed that stage of oyster education,
and will have only the smaller and more
succulent Rockaway or Blue Point-the
smaller the better. The days of mons
trosities have passed in this vicinity, and
a New Yorker who would Saddle Rock
come within his reach may be put down
as recent and verdant importation, or
rs Il person who will never
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men put il, a Blue Point and a Saddle
Rock bear to each other for eating pur-
poses the relation of a Spring chicken
and an old hen. No one was quicker to
detect this Improvement in the public
taste then the men who make the largest
purchases. Consequently the great run
Immediately In prospect Is destined to
be in small or medium oysters Whole
sale dealers now class this stock as fancy
and 1t will bring at wholesale close to one
cent an oyster. That was the ruling
price last year. Luckily for everyone
the oyster beds from which this stock is
gathered are in prime condition, so that
the yield will fully satisfy the demand.
There has been less trouble this season
than usual from drumtiSh, STARS, bOrers,
and other destroyers of the oyster. Some
times these pests are vexing. They
can use up an oyster bed in short order.
No way has been found to avoid them,
and the only thing to do is to watch the
beds closely.
Soon all the spare sloops and schoners
and many steamers will go out for Rock
aways and the kind of Blue Points that
grow elsewhere than in their native beds.
As Blue Points can not be taken up where
they grow most abundantly until Septem-
Der -, Blue Point seed has been trans
planted to other beds, SC as to bring that
oyster into market for the beginning of
the season. The old-fashioned way of
depending on canvas and land labor tC
supply brisk market is fast falling into
disuse, steam making quicker and surer
work.
Some figures were furnished by j. W
BOYLE, who does business at the foot OF
Perry street, showing what wholesale
dealer calls a good business. The aver
age daily sales of shell oysters for six
months i'll the year are 81, 800 day, with
spurts at the holidays running to $1,000 {
dnv. For two months more the average
sales are about $1,000 a day. As there
are forty wholesale dealers in the city
doing, of course, a varying business, anC
the average price of oysters Is 1la cents
IT is estimated that close to 100000 Oys
ters are sold by them in the shell ever!
day for six months and 100000 a day fo1
two months. The greater part of thi:
consumption Is local, or within day.
journey of the city. The shucked oyster
business is nearly as large here
for shipping purposes. Baltimore is th'
great place, however. for that branch o.
the business. One Chicago firm take:
from Baltimore and this city an averag,
of $4,000 worth of oysters day.
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