American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . uch a have already a great variety of bowls,boxes, and cups, with the crates to pack themin, and every year is adding to the are of marvelous convenience and cheap-ness, and it will pay any fruit grower to visittliis city to see what the inventors of the countryare doing to help the sale of his products. AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 33» ME Mi0)USElH[(Q)lLDo (33f For other HouselioM Hems, see Musket pages.) Sea-side Fare.—The Clam. A New Euglandcr who orders clams iu New Yorkis likely to be served with a qu
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . uch a have already a great variety of bowls,boxes, and cups, with the crates to pack themin, and every year is adding to the are of marvelous convenience and cheap-ness, and it will pay any fruit grower to visittliis city to see what the inventors of the countryare doing to help the sale of his products. AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 33» ME Mi0)USElH[(Q)lLDo (33f For other HouselioM Hems, see Musket pages.) Sea-side Fare.—The Clam. A New Euglandcr who orders clams iu New Yorkis likely to be served with a quite different shell-fish from tlie oue he bad been accustomed to callthe clam at home. Tbat which is commonly calledthe clam in New York is the quahog of NewEngland, while the clam proper is designated as thesoft or long clam. The two are quite different instructure, habits, and flavor. The clam proper(Jfi/a armaria of the naturalist), is the one repre-sented iu figure 1. The shells are quite thin, audof a more or less distinct white, or often of a dull. Fig. 1.—SOFT-SUELL CLAM,lead color; the color as well as the size varyingwith the locality. At one end of the shell projectsthe siphon or snout, which is capable of remark-able extension. The clam burrows iu the sand alongthe margins of saltwater bays and rivers, betweenhigh and low water mark. It is concealed at adepth varying from a few inches to a foot or morebelow the surface of the sand, and keeps up a com-munication with the water above it by means ofits long snout, through which it takes its are obtained by digging with a short handledhoe, when the tide is low. Their presence is readilydiscovered by the jets of water they throw up whenalarmed by footsteps. They discharge a sudden6trcam of water and draw their snout completelywithin their shells.—The engraving, figure 2, pre-sents the animal with oue shell removed. The large,roundish body is popularly known as the belly, thenarrow strip which nearly enci
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