| Show TO RAISE TERRAPIN PLANS FOR increasing THE SUPPLY me X to isele a lesI of pa r Is at Ter Plas 1 to glat ft 1 the tk I 1 a t to B Us out creft abe tb eggs TV two private Torr arts peas bid idd built au belli shells is the ft oat of the be terrapin trade of the this CaM campag pak and AW the home of state flab fish commissioner james 0 who ii is pet pit id operation a plan for apply lyof of the diamond beck lack ue ile li Is that the can ie be propagated with ear ease and ail surprising cheap neu essI aad and that with the aid of the state the may eairly be the of the rapid decline in the quantity of terrapin li is considered by the dative natives to be due to the destruction of the terrapin egg th ahse are an laid la in high undy tidy places slid ad anores of people patrol the sandy bomb dally daily in the coke jn in search of them 1 em ibey carry them off to be eaten ai table luxuries juit just an beca bans egg eggs am they are very rich and ad acm mis cloDer taw tawes proposes pro poo if it he receives a fac lefo appropriation to justify it to a bomber number of females la in a state pound or of coundi and to baicu out O 0 ht young one ones from the eggs terrapin win 41 lay ing about kur the middle of alay may and the eggs eg batch la in about 80 30 day the female 1 terrapin scratches a b bole in the mod deposits her bar eggs from 18 to 10 19 in it and then covers them op up and al iowa lie beat of the aan u on thu the mud to 90 hatch batch them they an are not bucit bigger when bea hatched than a nian mans thumb nail and are aa as soft aa as dough they crawl around in a lively way and begin to bunt bout for their food which consists of adall lib crab crabs eto in the fint am 1 quite tr ax ns iwa 2 aur I 1 iley bay fig o 0 lulo into their inter winter quarters condit consist of ad oft road rood bolee bolas ia in the mirth or on the tits bottom of some eream 11 org they sleep until about the middle of april or lato r and they cut 1 nry are about four inches iu in bree ibe the next year they have to six iz inches and the third to wren eleven commission er or tawes thinks that titre are are several varieties on the coast but aba thal in some of the oot bera states tate they have prealie pr eclie ly be the as in maryland the only being that ia in this state tl tle period of hibernating ia Is longer than it ie is further south hawee la of the opinion that he could inako make a de aided lo 10 breadon pre erion upon tho terrapin apply supply in a is bort short time he its would do this not because the terrapin ia Is a lukery bu 3 bew beauco it arod to bo be and can again become a source of gloat to those who catch it the greal great of tho the chesapeake bay and its it tributaries tributa ries A T lavallette Laval lotte of crisped Cria Cris fled ded has ha u immense terrapin pound which ia Is vt aurely fenced in oo 00 aa as to prevent the f ape of the high priced inmates in iDina matej teJ ue hai half at t prevent about terrapin tir rapin MOI of which biever bc never ever are DOW now la in the winters adeep not in the pound but ic fr a big celar cellar this la is kept dark and abbots the freezing point but not too warm the dealer dealers here have an immense trade in terrapin ter in washington philadelphia and new they re calved one order for 3 worth of ter capla on the occasion of the tile tilt visit of ll 11 L hong hung chang to new york and they supplied led the terrapin for the bradley jmartin ball they aim mako large shipments to the west wesl i the ter terrapin shippers bip pra are a opposed to the bill now pending in the legislature by ita the catching of diamond end back terrapin between april 1 3 aad and NOT nov 1 ii Is prohibited coder tuder a pea pan alty ot of 10 for overy terrapin caugh cau gc trapped or killed at za time ball shall the terrapin caught measure leri left than five inches on the und ershell no person ball bare have in ble his siou expose balsor aale or buy any of ae aforesaid flab ash during the to closed season georgo george lii another large dealer who baa containing between and terrapin says the bill will have the uly to destroy our business and throw the trade of guyland luy land dealer dealers lato the bands of virginians Virgi niana while at the same time it will retard instead of promoting pr arnot the propagation of terrapin the will vol ash just the tame same and find feat adof of being old sold to legitimate dealers who would them in pound pounds where when they might grow and fatten they will be kept in barrel and bozes until the season opens when they will be placed upon vis market in a bad condition there ia is a great misapprehension among the majority of people as t W abo aethel ago age of a terrapin which measures mea curea eight inches on the under ruder hell shelf our arm waa was greatly in the same fact when we started to raise tear spins from egge wp reached the con elusion from actual experience that an eight inch terrapin auit be about CO 50 year years old aid it if terrapin would grow about an all inch over y year r there would bo be a fortune in ra alm 1 aw them their growth for the alris three or fou four years yeara ia in rapid but after pat hat it is a almost imperceptible from cearto year to year we have been at a great deaf deat of expense in fitting up our pound and hara endeavored to develop the terrapin industry duttry In the law alao also pro video that the destruction deat ruction of diamond back terrapin term pin eggs it is absolutely prohibited the penalty sac br violating thi this pro vision being not iw lair aban 33 nor a more than loofer lOO for each quence olena it seems to pa an that the bet west way to 0 prohibit bopf 1 the deag doag of terrapin egg apri i for r the fate state to offer a good price for tem and let them t 6 hitched out ia in the hatcheries of tb abe tate stam after the young terrapin hare have reached a certain age they can be liberated without danger of being destroyed flu troyed there abe would bo be lo 10 indue acet men I 1 to catcher catchers to use the a eggs for food if wy aw bcd cf 4 a good crice vice from the lah abw tribune |
