Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-03

the oyster beds OF Maryland have been dredged
and redredscd without replanting. and there
are now in the neiyhborhood of 200 boats of
various kinds which swarming over the
oyster waters and Or aging the mouths Of the
rivers. Between so. 000. 900 and $50 00). 00D
are invested in the oyster industry in the
United States. and there are more than 5000
men who expect to spend this coming season IN
fishing for OYSTERS Eighty per cent of all the
oysters used in this country come from the
Maryland fisheries. and oys:ers are shipped
from here and Baltimore 10 all the great cities
of the country from New York TO san Fran
cisco The demand for them increases every
year. and one of the most profitable industries
of the future will be oyster farming.
HOW TO RAISE OYSTERS.
In fact there is no kind Of live stock which
will pay quite so well rs oysters and there are
thousands OF men in the world today who make
big incomes out of planting. raising and selling
these she'll fish. The business is carried on to u
vast extent in Europe. but there are no regions
in the world which are fitted for the raising
of oysters those along the Chesapeake bay.
and there is 4 big chance here for the right
man As ii Is now there millions of dollars
spent in oyster raising in New England. and the
middle Atlantic states have over S5000.000
worth Of oyster fisheries and these bring in an
income of more than 20, 900 900 a year. New
York has n number of fine oyster farms which
paw well. anu l1Sfc are liNlt tHtn u Hllillpil
bushels of oysters raised ariitcally every year
In Rhode Island The state gets more than
$1,000 every from the oyster industry and
there Is a capital of about a million dollars in
vested in it. a number of oyster beds have
been lately planted in Delaware bay and oysters
are now grown on the Pacific slope. We know
nothing In America. however. of the profits OF
oyster raising. and IL Is estimated that ii the
beds along the Chesapeake were Mt all cult
waited they would bring in 5000 600 .O)) a year.
and they ought 10 produce ten times
a. many oysters as they do now. There are
along this bay more than a million acres of first
class oyster ground and great part Of this
be had for little or nothing. The French. under
far worse conditions. are making fortunes ont
of their oysters. and on n French oyster farm
of 492 acres 1t i reported that : COG 900 worth
of oysters has been raised. and upon another
farm in France which planted only five
Years ago here were taken out during six tides
5000 900 oysters. The fact il that oyster
farming Is becoming just legitimate bust
ness in Europe potato farming and wheat
farming and If the conditions right the har
vest can be Just a surely counted upon. Ii il
estimated that twenty bushels of shells planted
in New Jersey will produce one hundred bushels
of oysters. and of 80. 900 acres of barren ground
along Long Island sound. covered by from
thirty to hfty feet of water. 5000 fine oyster
beds have been made. and these bring in an in
come of hundreds of thousands of dollars year.
OYSTER FARMS ALL TIE WORLD OVER.
Nearly all the oysters sold in England are
raised on oyster farms and I get the most of
nv information as to ''oyster farming abroad"
from a new book which has just been published
In London concerning the oyster. From
IL ind that artificial oyster raising is now
going all over the world. There is u town
in Kent near London known AZ Whitestable
which sells more than 81 900. 900 worth of
ogsters year. and there are twenty-seven
square miles there taken up in oyster farming
and oyster feeding. Oysters are brought from
France. from Holland and from America and
are fed there before they are taken to London
for sale, and there are 5000 people these
farms who do nothing else the year round but
take care of the oysters. The greatest caution
is taken TO let nothing touch the oysters that will
injure them and they carefully graded and