THE OYSTER INDUSTRY.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 409, 10 March 1904, Page 8

THE OYSTER INDUSTRY.

lifts**':¥**•«▼• Billioa Dlvalres C«m» . W UpMri *» * Ye»r la TkU Coniitry ud Camm4«. j Wsßprteen states "and Canada hare \ f-~ y within * few years, boosted the oys--2 from something 1 over fire | llpou bivalves annually to a produch km of over twelve billion. At the Ibfeverage retail price of one-half cent |p«X oyster, it will be seen that it probRSwr cost * ** at le&fct w O - 000 ' 000 P er f"l§ptr. : to indulge in the lnscious sea particularly when most of us s&ave tr •• J" 25 cents for a "»tew" or I'' jSpBTl*"" «f six oysters, says Harper** ?f J Jh is war*- lay. by the way, ha* apparfirtly' wieste-l the oyster chainpi..it ship "»'<• r production from Cbesapeafc* ■'.. Tsay. Tlirretn therv.-tergr;:i:nr%ooT?r over «<* square miles, engage ove; i fp) T# «««>.!.arnd employs over 7.0-0 men l*itir> ii"' l - «>' Delaware oysters is e> timaied to pay an annual profit of ?« SO year Delaware oyster farmer snifJV I 1? t<»nse-'B:>tuously at his brother of the | os and the hay. Thecapital rf thisindn>ijTT is fitly called Bivalve, with | streets, all debouching on I '.'■,, ws~« fronts, wharf lined, and cov''erect vnth stet'l rails by railways which wrest what traffic they can from the sail and steam craft. Valne of a Hole. The allurement of the bargain-coum- '- its spell not upon the well-to-do *wer alone- In a Salvation Army Komm=ge store a certain sign reads: with hole in sole, five cents; Mho-* without holes, ten cents. Wrap--I'pagfc aioth-eaten, ten cents; not motbeatt.-. 15 rents. Stockings without fcclw. two rsirs for five cents; I witi holes, three pairs for five cents." Coul-JT even the champion golfer tabuk late rior.e accurately the value of a