Show FARMING UNDER FORTY FEET OF SALT VIA TER ATER Great Oyster Beds Bed Are as s Ex Exe Extensive Ex- Ex e as Grain Fi Fields of West 1 Farming under tort forty feet teet of ot water would seem to be rather difficult It Itis Itis Js is both difficult lt and e expensive e work and Is done upon a aast vast ast scale There Thero are farms under tort forty tift fifty an and even sixty feet of or salt water water sometimes sometimes I more than twenty t thousand acres under undera n. n I. I management These ii sc- sc farms do ii not t produce grain but oysters They are Jre sometimes sometime more extensive and ond expensive than the vast ast grain fields s of the west Oyster grounds have ha been sold eold for tor per acre all acre all under water I The crop Is propagated seeded eede planted plant plant- ed protected removed ed replanted ted matured matured matured ma ma- maI I and harvested all aU b by o steam power larJ large steamers being employed capable of ot catching I 1200 OO bushels of ot otO O oysters per pcr hour from these grounds These oyster grounds as may be readily seen are no longer In to the little creeks estuaries and rivers where natural natural natural nat nat- ural oysters formerly grew but are In Inthe inthe the tho great open bays bas and sounds like Uke Lon Long Island sound Peconic Gardiners Narragansett Great South and Ch Chesapeake Chesapeake sa- sa peake bays bas where whore the ground Is swept by the deep pure current of ot salt sea seawater sea seawater seawater water and where the product of ot oysters oysters is always alwa's pure and delicious This is modern culture which has hai practically practically replaced the small natural o oyster oyster ster s 's ter tisher fishery t |