Show lobsters during the past three months there were listed in portland live lobsters and canned lobsters when we consider the fact that it takes on an average the meat of fifty lobsters to fill one dozen cans aad that the dabove figures represent the importation of more than lobsters in three months at this port alone we get some idea of the enormous consumption of this article of food in this country and the eld inquiry as to how long this drain upon the rich resources of the coast can be stood naturally suggests itself portland press |