| Show Oyster Is First a Male i Then Female Then Male MaleAt At maturity tile the oyster Iter I Horn Uon as 1 a male Within sir weeks I of ot that time lime It WilY may be a female carrI a full tull complement of ot developing de I embryo When these are ready for the free swimming stage I they thel ore are discharged ed Into the water anc and the parent Us III duty done dont again aln becomes a R male and goes rOlS Into a aI I resting stage from which It will not merge e until the following smuttier of oP possibly a year later than that h when n the ecle If I. again repeated according to on an authority In the ondon Oh Observer er ef I Unlike the eggs egg of ot most fish hh the of or the are fertl within the body booy of the parent I where they are retained until the tho developing of ot which there may be a million or wore more have e actually ac l reached the form of small are not however howe Immediately extruded Into the waler wa wa- tel ler but upend an Intermediate ale existence In the mantle cavity of ot the parent where here they may continue I to 10 develop cle actually l In water ater but bUI under tully fully protected conditions I At first unless examined under the microscope they resemble I milky fluid and to those In Ih i trade the oater Is 15 then known ns AS ASI I white sick lick As the shell develops de the mass becomes gray and then dark tJark when the parent oyster osler Is I. described as 8 black sick At the end of this stage tage the young loung are literally blown Into the water and thereafter to fend for tor them se selves Iv e |
