Show BIG LOBSTER POUND A million of the toothsome Tooth gome shipped fr from m it yearly there is a lobster farm or pound a as it is ca called I 1 led twelve acres in extent at southport southwort South port me the boston globe describes this pound the most successful on the coast whence one million lobsters are shipped each year the pound is formed by building a sol solid id dam across a tidewater cove this dam ds docs not quite rise to high water mark but across the top is placed a fence of iron rods permitting a aaby cnance of water and preventing the lobsters from escaping pi ping in the spring and fall business IS ia most brisk when the A shermen fishermen bring the lobsters to the pound the fish as they are called are hoisted to the dam measured and those which are more than ten and one half inches long the legal limit are thrown in if a lobster is clever his life in the pound may be long and full of joy it if he is stupid he will be fished out with a drag seine and packed in iii a barrel with a piece of ice for a pillow and sent seat to boston the seine is made of s tout stout twine ewine and is weighted at the bottom with a heavy chain along the top is a row of corks which sustain the weight of the seine while the chain drags on the bottom of the pound A single cast of this seine will luring bring up lobsters enough to fill elev eleven barrels barr elb the chain as it sweeps along tho the bottom stirs up the lobsters which immediately shoot backward into the slack twine in taking the them 0 out u athe the men wear heavy mittens mitten s thong though h even then they are often nipped inthe in the pound the lobsters are fed on salt herring men ro rowing wing about in skiffs skiff sand and pitching the herring overboard this is called feeding the chickens and it takes about six barrels to make a light luncheon for the flock there are said to be a number of old hard shells in the southport southwort South port farm which for years have evaded the casts of the a drag rag two of enormous size have become quite tame and crawl about in the shallow water the age of the lobster is a debated question the small marketable specimens are generally generall y supposed to be from four to six years old but some lobsters are believed to live to the green old age of twenty five years |