Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-12-18
SCALLOP INDUSTRY.
FACTS ABOUT A MOLLUSk NOT so
WELL KNOWN AS THE OYSTER.

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| Just before the last visitors leave the
seaside places where scallops abound
they see men cleaning down the large
Bloops and fishing boats scraping the
bottoms and overhauling sails and run
ming rigging. and, if curious enough to
ask the reason why, they are told that
the scallop season commences on Oct. !.
This has been the date for years, with
the exception Of 1894, when the Massa-
chusetts season was delayed until Nov.
/, owing to the growing scarcity Of the
mollusk and the change in the season,
which gives warmer weather, as rule,
at the end Of September and in October
than was the case years ago. AS mat
ter of fact, scallops, like celery. are not
in their prime until the frost catches
shem.
The great bulk of tho early scallops
in the New York market come from
Shelter island and Peconic bay, where
visitors in s.lmmer may see them lying,
shells and fish mingled, by hundreds OF
thousands in five feet of shoaling water.
There are many more empty shells than
full ones, say the fishermen, and this
is proved to some extent if the visitors
dredge for tho handsome fan shaned
shells to usc in fancy vorl, Thev sol.
dom get Il shell with the meat still in
it. Later on scallops come to this mar.
ISot from Buzzards bay. Monument
beach. m to Wines Mock lioht in
Massachusetts. and still later tho east.
ern sunDlv arrives from Maine and New
rurrlhirn.
Tine industry is unt = very old ono II
being nbout 25 wears since if assumed
LARGE nro7,urrions Asin ,ho case of ove-
tcrs. loonlr had scallons nt their doors
but did nor care tn take rbe troub,o n
cathcr Them to oat p,ncb Ices t,v to
market tbn,u I,our voars ,oo tho J-nit.
c3 STATES oovc,n,Ynrt a,-inrnd an intor.
est IN the indrerr.- -,,d ,b,ai,,ad st,tis.
tics CT rpceipts at the various markets for
n ,nr,o nj y1ars
The scailors are take, from +bo v.-
fer ut tho voriors ,,,ints ~, drodr,;ry
from tha sides of .lorn, amd s,,a,,nr
boats, THE drcdgr consists of AN ir,r,
frame holding nh0u4 = husbcl with ,
cOarsn nctvnrk If iron rinp. ar t},a
harl, lii-, on ovsfcr arcdco r. i d,.v,r
SLOWLY over 1hn sral1on ornnn6 ,,nti, u
is tillrl Whom th, .,+cb is bor1,l IN.
board. rbo cul)inr Drocnss commences
a,;l tbo rpfnsn j. thrown ovnrboard
Some nf thn loronr ho,ts n,+ c,t -, ,
co,d dov ,s MANY as .ovoD drndgos 4
~cnd DIV is esti,nn,ad to ,,ro6nco aho,7+
80 bushels in the sh.ll. and the 20 hnsh.
pl. in th,. !Lrll will ,rod,,co oho,,+ co
rrgrts for tbc narl.lr Tba .,ny.o,, If
Iho r,olh,sl is tha only n,rt rnfa;rol
Ounni,., rhe shell. IN cd11 yvoot,cr T..
bittrr, hard yvorl, or,l thn mon sa,r
every cont thcv max, ,rbn yhoII, ar,
EG,y,ypr Fnirlv easy IN anon ord for
fbis ,an.,,,n II Is no ,,,cnrnc, +hi,,,, fn,
,,,.n who nv.n el4tfs I'm t,l-a their e,},ir,,
c@f,I h17np. whore tbrir ,viva; md rbi1.
dr,n nl} tprn emf IN helm ahe)1 thrm
q'hn shaIls hovo sb,rn ,duo, which
,p,l.n >nosf of tbr mon ,paar ~, hbar IN.
.rr COTS nh. lrifn nsod il of s+n,1
with = bIa,jn nm inch wide ami nrsrIv
n. yp. Times az 1o,,, 4 gooI ,,rnn, cor,
r,rt throroh win, - ,,ai1ons a do,- ,,,d
%hp ,,av is o0 cn,,+s 80 ,r.1Ior rrhn' e,,,ail
ecni1p,Is 49,. fLro,gn overheard
lr J., rrarticallv iuDos.ihlp to s..+
c~all,ns IN thpir na+,,.,r crqt. ir ia
N-,v Io,l. n.,rl.n+s rbrv ar,.. all srnbed
bafn,o laavinr fine arrdg,rs the id.a
bojra ia mako thnrn l,r,"r and WHITTIER
2e sn,.,.iry three gajInns If eroircrs
n,nv can ln 1,,.dr II, measure fn7r ..a,
lou. Int t.c effect f tho ,roces. ni rhe
quality il .,anr1,r n.at+pr 4uy riSita,.
~,ho ,,s lop.,bt fh~u, nj fao ,.rnunas
,zno>,,s t,,n di,@n,pucn l,tz,. a., tn.. .l,oa
and fine un.oal<aa Directly tho snal.e1
gcauons ar. cooked thcy nooa raa nan
with yvatr,. and lr;,.n ,u,,,c a GOOD
hous, wifc's son, into sin hrchiIling tho
Pat in which .hp i,,tpraad tor,nL tEor,
MANY 4 time will She drv thep, careful.
IL. cracker du.t and eye tha,p have fine
fat boilng and buhhiinp onlv, +, dron
chem j., and have tbom Gonna op+ na,t.
boiled or narstewod, The faiJprc j. dine
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