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separated from the sand by passing the
latter through a suitable screen The
time to sow them is when the tide is
coming in; for, as soon as the water
covers them, they burrow AID plant
themselves.
In suitable localities, CLANS can be
made to grow so thick as to be almost
a solid mass. Indeed, a productive
sandbank may yield revenue that
would be creditable to a gold mine.
MusseI Good to Eat.
Another species of moliusk that in
vites propagation is the common mus
known in this country, 1t is quite as
palatable as the oyster and more nutri-
tious- Also. It is exceedingly digest
ible, and has the advantage of being
in season when oysters are out.
Roasted, stewed. ~or fried, it is equally
excellent. and for invalids it is highly
recommended.
The government fisheries bureau
says that musse1 farms, such as might
be established in bays and estuaries
along the Atlantic coast from North
Carolina northward, and on the Pacific
side from San Francisco to Alaska
ought to yield ten times the profit OBJ
tainable from good agricultural land.
In British waters such farms average
an output of los tons annually per acre
-salable for 1892. The method Of rails
ing mussels adopted in that part of the
world is to collect the little seed mus
sells" from piles and other such places.
and transfer them to brackish water. in
places where mud and sand flats are
exposed at low tide.
1t is merely a question of time when
the growing of oysters will be recog<
nized in this country as a branch of
agriculture As a matter of fact, the
bottom of Chesapeake Bay is reckoned
to possess a greater fertility than the
valley of the Nile, being covered with a
rich black mud full of microscopic.
plants on which oysters feed. It is
adapted, however. for the production Of
only one kind of crop-namely, oysters
Here (says the Fisheries Bureau) is an
available farming area of more than
1000 square miles, the whole of which
could, with proper methods, be made
to yield an average profit of 500 per
annum.
Oyster Not Rover.
The oyster is as fixed and sedentary
as a potato. and its cultivation Is ex-
tremely simple. Up to the present
time, however, it has been regarded al
most as a wild crop, because naturally
so plentiful and its cultivation has not
been attempted, in this country, on any
plan less primitive than that pursued in
Long Island Sound, where quantities of
old shells are dumped overheard, in
order TO invite the attachment of the
free swimming oyster larvae in the
breeding season
The intensive culture of oysters is
something quite different. In Europe
It is pursued by various methods. one of
which consists in placing convex earth
ware tiles in stacks in the shadows of
bays and estuaries at the breeding sea-
son. The baby oysters are afterwards
scraped from the tiles and placed in
wire-net boxes in shallow water to
grow. While thus protected against
enemies. they are fattened by the food
which the tides bring them. and rapidly
increase in size, being transferred to
fresh boxes as fast as the first ones
become crowded.
The Pennsylvania Department of
Fisheries has already taken up the
problem OF frog culture with much seri-
BUSINESS. With frogs legs at 81
pound, the demand even at this price J
exceeding the supply. such an Industry
invites the attention of the agricultur- i
ist-especially when it is considered