Show OYSTERS FORCED TO WORK 19 scientist conceive I 1 idea of teaching bivalves bivalve to pro P ro i d duco uce pearls tito tho japanese conduct great boyste S faring where tho bivalves anre to make it wall doctor noto note ft a well known scientist who conceived tho the idea that oysters might bo ba educated and made to work for or awn after many years of costly expert discovered ilia method in uso use today tito farm lina has nn nil area ot of about OO 00 square miles and tho the writer vorlett in depth from to 13 no farm or cr selects tho spots choro ulo faryna at 0 oysters nio aro most numerous and lied lie lia plants small rocks and stones atones these anro soon covered vilh oyster aint they aro then removed anti plated placed tn in special beds wha they llo ila pil disturbed until the third year it la Is said bold that in an oyster will not pro duco a pearl unless it bo be irritated t ed by r lusbi same oma forel fore igni Kii substance As so abon 1 as it fools foels this it proceeds proc ceda to cover it with nacre insor on dinyer until after a few years it ila liaa rondo made n ahou largo iario enough the ali oysters art arg token taken from t heir beds and carefully lully a tiny jcck of some foreign substance Is a in trod reduced into their bodies and they tire replaced in tho the sea bea ily by the end of from three to HYO years tho ilia oyster lina hils coated the tha foreign substance with haaro aagre and this ilaa become a pearl |