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Show Planting Spongec. - If Professor Oscar Schmidt, of Gratz, in Styria, is to be trusted, the sponge trade is on the eve of new developments. He declares that he has succeeded, by breaking off pieces of the living sponge and planting them in favorable spots, in procuring in three years excellent sponges of large dimensions. The experiments ex-periments have proved a financial success. suc-cess. The result of his labors so far has been the production of 4,000 sponges at a cost of 9, including the interest for three years on the capital expended. Montreal Star. |