Show STRANGE crustaceans lobsters once cry animals once upon tt a time eald said an expert in matter matters crustacean to n washington agton bur man inan the thoro were crabb u and lob in existence fai 4 aich the modern fla lierman would hano hav gonon n hunting will with tho the moat most improve ol 01 weapons and caution example in times antediluvian thoro there was a lobster which had a body eight feet foot long and could stretch twelve feet with its formidable arms positive knowledge of 0 this giant of long ag ago go ie Is con convoked by geological ro search it must hn hai a contained moat meat enough to mako make a salad for fer a regiment rog lmont of in those days of long ugo ago everything grow to enormous onor dimensions whether animal or vegetable frogs ecru ro big and nativo enough to leap at one ono hop from the treasury eury building to the capitol and other crea creatures turee particularly those of a do a sort were in pt apoi tion only a few specimens are loft to illustrate the giant crustacean forme forms of that ht lit epoch it is known how an I 1 lobsters are hatched from eggs resembling upon birth nothing so 90 much as tho the shown by the microscope in a drop of ditch water they ore are as much unlike the shellfish shell fish they aro are to become in mature ufa lifo as a grub ie 18 unlike a butterfly in ahm case of a crab the gg clusters aro are attached beneath the animal after ox ex tru alon while with the lobster the become fast fastened emed to the tall which ba its fanning motion modon increases the stream of oxe ox air through and alaon among the ova the eggs of the lobster arc are hatched trea treasures tures not in the leat lea t resembling se sem their parents little follone that swim with featherlike feather like liko loco locomotive mothe organs ner near the surface of the water at the end of weeks they develop le logs 1 I unless as Is highly probable they have been devoured by isaios or other enemies becoming thereupon small lob lo batora stord of familiar shape having reached this stage of growth the lobsters baccomo walking ani ant mals and sinking to tho the bottom im mediately seek hiding places to protect them from their foes mie first experiments in the adaptation of ot knowledge on this subject to the artificial propagation of lobsters were made simply in glass are with sea water that was chan changed gred dally daily even under these primitive conditions I 1 the newly hatched fry thih thrived od and grew to bo be of some size and healthy any one ono who desires to rear lobsters by hand can accomplish tho the purpose most quickly by keeping the spawn bearing females in suitable ponds or tanks until tho the young come out in raising tho the animals on a largo large scale however it would bo be best to separate se the eggs from the lobster and spread them upon trays allowing tho the water to percolate through as Is done with salmon eggs by this method much trouble would bo be avoided as well as tu the expense of feeding the adult hen lobsters |