. Biology in America. Biology. Man and Nature 437 While the primary function of this station is mussel propa- gation, it interests itself also in saving the multitude of tish found in the overflow waters of the INlississippi bottoms, and to which reference has already been made. Living a humble life in the salt marshes of our Atlantic and Gulf Coast is the delight of the epicure—the diamond- back terrapin. So precious is this creature in the eyes of some persons of elegant and expensive tastes that the best grade of Chesapeake terrapins were bringing about $70 per dozen in 1917. Here surely wa
. Biology in America. Biology. Man and Nature 437 While the primary function of this station is mussel propa- gation, it interests itself also in saving the multitude of tish found in the overflow waters of the INlississippi bottoms, and to which reference has already been made. Living a humble life in the salt marshes of our Atlantic and Gulf Coast is the delight of the epicure—the diamond- back terrapin. So precious is this creature in the eyes of some persons of elegant and expensive tastes that the best grade of Chesapeake terrapins were bringing about $70 per dozen in 1917. Here surely was an opportunity for the economic biologist. The Bureau promptly rose to the. The Diamond-kack Tkkrapix, ax Expensive TluiiiT Piwto by R. ir. Shujeldt. emergency and in 1902 established a station at Beaufort, N. C, for the study of various economic and scientific i)r()b- lems relative to the flsheries of the region, and more esi)ecially those concerning the propagation of the terrapin. In the pens connected with the station are more than two thousand terrapin including some ten generations, wliich have been raised in captivity. Man}- of these are now large enough for market, and some have in their turn produced young. The experiments, the details of which cannot be given here, demonstrate the possibility of terrapin farming on a com-^ mercial scale, and establishing in this nuinner a lucrative industry. A terrapin farm on a commercial basis has been conducted for many years near Savannah, Georgia, by Mr. A. M. Barbee, where terrapin are raised for market by tlie thousand, so that terrapin fanning may now be fairly said to have passed the experimental Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Young, R. T. (Robert Thompson), b. 1874. Boston, R. G. Badger
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