Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-09-17

says the New York
CommericialAdvert Before you is
a glass jar filled with running water
Loosely filling it about half way IN are
a large number of eggs nearly round in
shape and about one-siXteenth of AN
inch in diameter, ever trying to rest
On the bottom, but boiling and buLb bling
up with the force of the incoming cur
rent below and dancing in it like the
corn on the stove. Once in awhile one
of the expanding shells falls off its
owners back, and before Mr.. Lobster
knows it, whisk! Off he goes up and
away with the current through a long
tube into bigger receiving jar as
frisky as young colt.
Uncle Sam takes a good deal of pains
with his lobster crop. It's one of the
most important known to the coas.
fishermen, and the government doesn't
intend that either the catcher or the
eater of Holsters shall starve by reason
of it's extinction,
The lobster leads a nomadc life
migrating more or less from warmer
waters to colder and from shallow to
deep, according to the season. He can
dispense with a claw. though unwiil
ingly, and grow another in its stead.
He is fond of fresh lobster himself.
as we'll as of fish and clans, and eats
his food bones and all, the bony part
furnishing him with material for his
shell. The lobster is very particular
20 OF h oh ,bo., J.; ~,
one has become last years style. The
shell cracks. warps, curls up, and
sloughs of, materially aided by the con-
tortions of the lobster himself Then
he energies in thin, new suit, which
gradually hardens until it is in turn
ready to be cast off,
The fish commission is in league with
the lobster against his enemies and
these are men, other Holsters, parasites,
disease, and f1sh-eating things gener-
ally. Hence the artificial Matching
process.
The female Holsters for the commits
sion are caught in the ordinary way
in traps or lobster pots-baited boxes
Or baskets, anchored to the bottom of
the lobster beds with stones and pulled
up at intervals for inspection. The
law in all the states forbids the taking
OF female Holsters with eggs or of any
lobster under ten or eight inches long
But for the purpose of scientific prop
agation an exception is cheerfully
made.
The she lobster is so proud of her
eggs that she Clues them on the outside
OF her body. Hence she is called at
such times "berried hen" lobster.
Formerly, before the passage of repres-
sive laws, these egg-decorated Holsters
were as great delicacy as roe shad
and the eggs were used in making
sauces for salads. The United States
was much quicker than the European
nations to recognize the danger of de-
stroying the "berried" lobster and to
protect them by law.
Fish cultural sharps talk lightly of
millions of eggs. and no wonder. One
average ten-inch lobster will yield TO-
700 eggs an average Undetermined one
about $4,000. In the matches these are
stripped from the Holsters and put into
Macdonald Matching jars. which are
SO arranged that a constant current of
pure sea water is forced in at the bot
tom and passes of at the top. The
eggs are heavier than sea water and
hence sink to the bottom, where the
incoming stream of water keeps them
bobbing about. When the lobster lar
vac hatch out their shells sink. but
they being lighter float off through the
discharge pipe and are set free The
Matching is almost all completed in
June OF each year, though sometimes
1t continues during early July. The fe-
male lobster breeds only once in two