. Annual report . ring to makefurther search as it is carried along by the tides and eddies until it shallfind a proper home or perish an unattached atom, a minute victim of oneof the myriad unnoticed tragedies of the deep. In this connection the writer said in his last report: The oysterexudes thousands of eggs which (after fertilization) are carried along bythe tides until a clean, hard surface is encountered, when, if the limit of ex-istence in the free swimming stage has not been reached, it attaches andthere remains during its life history unless removed by the planter to othergrounds. Th
. Annual report . ring to makefurther search as it is carried along by the tides and eddies until it shallfind a proper home or perish an unattached atom, a minute victim of oneof the myriad unnoticed tragedies of the deep. In this connection the writer said in his last report: The oysterexudes thousands of eggs which (after fertilization) are carried along bythe tides until a clean, hard surface is encountered, when, if the limit of ex-istence in the free swimming stage has not been reached, it attaches andthere remains during its life history unless removed by the planter to othergrounds. The uncertainties of the business to the planter are spawn from the oysters upon his own grounds may be carried milesaway by the currents, while the set upon his lands comes from an unknownquarter; or, he may fail entirely to get a set, with the result that the moneyspent by him in preparing the beds has actually been thrown from an oyster farm, other lands may be fertilized and YOUNG OYSTERS OX COXCH SHELL. forest, fish axd game commissioner. 12 1 Preparation of Beds. The planter at the proper season carefully cleans the beds by scraping-over them with dredges, and tests the bottom so that he may have fullinformation of its character and formation. Oysters cannot live in mud orslime, they require a clean, gritty surface. He then, selecting those por-tions of his lands which he has found to be suitable, spreads over the bottoma covering of shells which have been cleaned and dried or strews it withclean broken stone. This is done in the early summer, just prior to thespawning season. Sometimes the experiment of placing upon the beds largeoysters, called spawners, which are ready to exude their spawn and miltis tried, but the oyster set may be said to be like the wind,—none can tellwhence it cometh. The preparation of the larger beds may cost many thousands of dollarswhich have actually been cast upon the waters in the hope of a suitableretu
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