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Show SEA-MUSSEL VALUABLE FOR FOOD PURPOSES WORCESTER, Mass.. Jan. 31. A six-year six-year study of tho sea-mussel has Just been completed by Dr. Irving A. Field, professor of biology at Clark university, acting for tho United States bureau of fisheries. He finds that tho mussel is a valuable article of diet, In the same class with the clam and oyster and far more plentiful than either. He submitted the mussel to numerous tesls to ascertain Its food value and the outcome will be made public. Mussels sufficient for a full meal for ten persons cost about 25 cents, and the shellfish Is abundant along the shore of the Atlantic from the Carollnas northward, north-ward, and along tho shoro of tho Pacific Pa-cific from Alaska to San Francisco. The yield averages nearly 8000 bushels to the acre. "Jt Is an economic crime." says Dr. Field, "to deny the mussel a place on our tables." |