Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries . agasaki for sale. for some branching collectors. reason, in L884 those thus preserved were left over winter and it was discovered that by next year they had grown to alarge size. This fact was not lost on the sagacious people thereabouts, of whom , an enthusiastic culturist, seems to have been the head and soul. From thisbeginning the industry was developed so that L8,330 bushels of oysters, valued at21,181 yen. were produced in L897, and the output has no doubt increased since. Themethod_ is as follows: Young oysters about an inch or more in leng
Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries . agasaki for sale. for some branching collectors. reason, in L884 those thus preserved were left over winter and it was discovered that by next year they had grown to alarge size. This fact was not lost on the sagacious people thereabouts, of whom , an enthusiastic culturist, seems to have been the head and soul. From thisbeginning the industry was developed so that L8,330 bushels of oysters, valued at21,181 yen. were produced in L897, and the output has no doubt increased since. Themethod_ is as follows: Young oysters about an inch or more in length are collected con-stantly from July till March of the next year from stone walls, old shells, etc. Allthese are placed on oyster beds in the river mouth, and as these small ones maybechoked by being covered up with the silt, they are heaped close together in masses,and are moreover washed and cleaned two or three times in a month, at low tide. InApril these oysters are stuck into the mud almost vertically with the. hinge-end below. 282 BU LLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF FISHERIES.
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