New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-01-17
TO SHIP OYSTERS TO ENGLAND.
COMPANY INCORPORATED IN WHICH EX-
POSTMASTER GENERAL JAMES

Thomas L. James, ex-Postmaster-General; John
f. James. William James Charles F. James and
George II. Shafer Saturday took out articles
OF Incorporate for the Anglo American oyster
Company. William James. Who Is to be the active
member OF the new company, yesterday
and explailed It's aims and Intentions follows
1T is really not n new scheme at all. but a new
name fol- already in existence. nave oeeh
for somo years engaged In rearing what Is known
as export oysters. and associated with me have
been a number OF English oys.ermen. We have de-
cided 70 incorporate company In which they Will
be able 10 own stock. At present We have oyster
bed, OF South Norwalk Conn. covering about
four hundred acres. but II is our intention TO add
10 our holdings until we control at least fifteen
hundred acres Our English partners buy annually
from fifty thousand TO seventy thousand barrels
Of oysters In the American markets. and It is our
intention wholly TO supply them. We have been
giving them all we could for some time. but our
beds are not OF sufficient size 10 fill such order
I'VE are capitalized for $4,000 now. but have the
power TO Increase this to 100000. which We Will
undoubtedly do We expect fully 10 organize In
the coming week.
Raising oysters is really farming under water
We lust select good. sandy bottom and cover II
with shells and then in spawning season distribute
Themselves TO the shell and remain attached until
their growth crowds them off. | have frequently
seen as many as fifty little oysters attached
she'll our oysters are not OF so line a grade as
the Blue Points and there is distinct prejudice
against the American oyster in the English mar
ket where they bring only about a third as much
i'm price as the brassy tasting home product. We
pack them in barrels and ship them the fast
liners where they placed in the cold storage
rooms They bring about SO barrel laid down
ship. Upon their arrival In England II there Is d
ready market. they at once disposed of. II.
however there Is no immediate demand. they ars
laid down In English beds until needed. But they
are always sold : American oysters
AN oyster should come TO its growth in two
years and we derdge them up at that time and
plant afrosh Sometimes find they do not do
well and we dredge them up and transpOse them 10
another locality. l have frequently sent whole
beds OF oysters from South Norwalk TO Great South
Bay. and from the latter place to the former. The
oysters find their food in the water, and
make attempt TO help them in this way. Only
last year a severe storm drove quantity OF sea-
weed the beds Of the famous Lynn Haven
Bay oysters and they took fancy TO It, and ate Il.
l. was found that the seaweed had impaired
green ting these oysters. and the whole product
was I'm consequence Of no value. II Is ;his sensi-
tyeness OF the bivalve that cOmpelS oystermen to
keep such large fields, they always have to let
several fields lie faow IN order 10 have them ready
should any OF the oysters take a dislike TO their
first abiding-pla
America exports about twenty-five thousa nd
barrels OF oysters 10 England annually OF which
amount our English shareholders take from
third to q fourth. We very close corporation.
Although Of the same name. am relation 10
Thomas l.. James BY the way. Ex-Governor Ros-
well 7. Flower is a large raiser OF oysters"