Show LOBSTER FARilNG Fairly Profitable Idush But Difficult Dif-ficult to Follow I Chicago Record One of the mot profitable Industries down on the cost I of Maine is lobsterln It Is a laborious labor-Ious occupation and those who follow it have to endure much hardships and I exposure and many perils from the sea Lobsters are caught on rocky bottoms In traps or pots which are made of hickory splngs after the fashion of a crockery crate At the two small ends holes are arranged with spikes of I flexible wood running to a focus so that the lobster tempted to enter by a bait hung from the center finds i I impossible to get out The most common com-mon bait are codfish heads and tsi which are to plentiful and unpopular to be salable in market The pot are submerged In two or three fathoms Of water with stone sinkers and their location marked by short loS of woo fastened to them by ropes and allowed to heat on the surface Twice a day at sunrise and sunset the pos a visited and the lobsters taken out and thrown Into a chest in the boat with a lot of seaweed to keep them fresh and give them something ge to chaw on After the pots have all ben empted the lobsters are all taken to a large float at some convenient spot where they are transferred to a tank and kept until called for Lbsterer who are convenient to towns sell mOt of their catch In the local market Those who are working at distant and Isolate spots along the cost are visited every week or ten I das by tugs fitted up with large tanks Or reseroirs capable of holding from 10000 to 1500 lobsters These vessels patrol regularly up and down the coast and when their tank are full drop in at Boston or New York and unload The life of the lobsterr Is lonely as well as dangerous He generally lives alone in a cabin on a rocky Island and spends his days catching bait for his traps Nearly all of them have lobster farms where the undersize lobster and those with spawn ard imprisoned In at water ponds to grow and breed The law protects the traffic by imp lag a heavy fine upon the sale of small ones |