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Show Age of Oysters. Oysters grow only during the summer sum-mer and especially during the long, warm summers at that, and are scarcely scarce-ly big enough for the mouth before the third year. It is easy after looking look-ing over a bunch of shells to tell how old an oyster is. A summer hump and the winter sink come across the shell every year, but after the seventh or tenth year full growth comes; then, by looking at the sinks between the humps it is hard to tell anything more about Miss Oyster's age. Oysters live to be 20 years old.. , |