Oyster Culture.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 246, 14 March 1888, Page 9

Oyster Culture.

Some remarkable statistics showing the progress of the oyster trade in France have just been published. It appears from them that during the past; twelve months the beds'have produced no fewer than 600 millions of oysters, or ten times more than in 1876. The progress does not concern quantity alone ; the quality also shows an equally noteworthy improvement. In 1883 ' France exported 31 millions, this year the exportation will not be lesa than 60 millions. The culture of what is known as '< the Portuguese " naissain " has been emm- i ently successful in France. Formerly France imported; great quantities of them ; ! for example, in 1883 she imported 154,647 kilpgrammes, representing a Value of nearly 2,60Q',000f. - liiiteacLof ihiporjiing, shje now exports them ; thus for the present year the* exports of Portuguese .oysters amount t6 over' soo,ooo' kilogramm'esY' 'The exiamsiori of the oyster trade in France during the last ten years is one of the most extraordinj. ary gastronomic features of the, times. : Not long, ago J>h.g, oyster i i w < a^,ea ; tettpnl,y.,b,y bourgeoisie \. nowadays the wprking, classes 'indulge in the succulent biyilv© daily, and -Bv€ v #- :^in'e>lio^, \^v^n< ; in *the" 'poorest 'qdartfeifß^hißaitepyjifcerfStiindo^tside^ i ?