Show r 1 FACTS ABOUT OYSTERS I It t e eAn An o oyster ster Is wonderfully prolific A single sing oyster ayster In a R single season will produce thirty million eggs egg It If these all survived and in turn had normal families in a few years ears many great g bodies of oC water sater such as Long Long- Island sound Peconic Gardiners seU sett Great South an and Chesapeake bays would become filled up Navigation would have o to be suspended The Tho oyster shells would form solid land as do da the houses hauses of the coral In Insects insects insects in- in sects of ot the South Sauth Pacific But Instead d of or increasing the tile destruction of oC the young oun o oysters by their enemies Is so great geat together tag with the depletion of oC the natural beds b by the demand for tar this delicious food b by mankind that far from fram increasing in past years ears the supply was Wa greatly depleted In many man cases It has threatened to ta become became ex ex- This was as especially true in lit Great Britain and some places on an the Atlantic coast f fIn In recent years ears however industry has been established for far the tho artificial propagation and cultivation of oysters Now ow thousands of ot acres are arc employed In oyster ayster farming on an tho the Atlantic sea sea- board hoard Here o oyster ster forming under from thirty to ta sixty feet teet of ot water Is conducted upon a n largo large scale |