Word: oystermen
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...remark of H. R. H. last week, knowing U. S. oystermen smiled. Said...
...fill their depleted beds, the oystermen of Delaware Bay, N. J., go to 1,000,000 acres of Government-protected seed beds: dredge for oyster youngsters, then dump them on the commercial farms. From May 1 to June 1 this harvest is allowed but May 1 is the big day. Since seed oysters, by law, can only be gathered from sunrise to sunset, and since the boats engaging in the act must be sail vessels, the annual stocking-up takes on the nature of a race. Last week promptly at 6 a. m. on May 1 a cannon resounded...
Just as the potato farmer is never certain of what his crop will be, the oyster-man's reward is always doubtful. Thus last week the oystermen of Bivalve roundly cursed the fact that they have had little rain, that the brackish water needed for oysters was a little too salty, and hence inviting to starfish. No enemy so annoys the oyster as the starfish which, unintelligent in many matters, is smart enough to clutch the bivalve in a deathly grip and tug until Ostrea Virginica in a moment of exhausted abandon opens his shell and allows himself...
...oyster business is one of the largest U. S. fisheries, with an annual value of around $14,000,000. About 65,000 persons are engaged in the industry, including the actual oystermen, workers in shucking and canning plants, laborers in shell kilns, and the wholesale mongers...
...Callers during the week included: Senator Walter Evans Edge of New Jersey, asking favors for oystermen; Senator Frederick N. Gillett of Massachusetts, to pay respects and tell a story (see POLITICAL NOTES); Governor Louis Franck of the National Bank of Belgium, to be introduced; Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court and several senior judges of the circuit courts of appeals, to pay respects; supreme officers of the tall Cedars of Lebanon; † Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger, U. S. A., to be taken out on the south lawn of the White House...