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Identifier: annualreport101112190newy (find matches)
Title: Annual report
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: New York (State). Forest, Fish and Game Commission
Subjects: Forests and forestry Fisheries Game and game-birds
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : The Commission)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Young oysters on rubber shoe. Text Appearing Before Image:
this delicious sea food iseverywhere growing. It was lately said: One who has a fondness foroysters to begin with never tires of the savory delights of a shell roast.With impunity and without a fear of ever growing sated or tired, one caneat oysters raw or oysters roasted in the shell 365 days of every year, withthe added day in leap year. Then why should we not raise more of them? Thousands upon thou-sands of acres under water, adjacent to our coasts, are admirably adaptedto this crop and may be made profitable to the planter and become a boonto the masses. In the first annual report of the oyster commission of Louis-iana, it is said: The commission finds that the oyster industry as it is carried onto-day, consists almost exclusively in an absolute dependence on the productof the natural oyster supply. The experience of other states, as found inthe studies made by the commission, indicate this to be a most unwise policy.We know of no industry where dependence is had entirely upon the
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YOUNG OYSTERS OX RUBBER SHOE. FOREST, FISH AXD GAME COMMISSIONER. I37 natural wild product. We know that one acre of water bottom under cul-tivation will, at the very minimum, produce ioo barrels of oysters perannum, and we know further that the last annual oyster crop was less thanhalf a million barrels. From this it conclusively follows that the totalster crop of Louisiana for the past season could have been produced on a5.000 acre oyster farm properly cultivated. Ouestions concerning refrigeration of stock during marine and over-land transportation are now practically solved, so that oysters maybe carried great distances without the loss of freshness or of delicacy offlavor. Shipments during the year from West Washington Market show inter-esting figures. The largest weekly shipments averaged 15,000,000 oysters.The smallest weekly shipments averaged 1,500,000 oysters. Clams. Xew York State clams are unsurpassed, the Little Necks being far-famed. They are especially in demand during

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