| Show japanese pearl farms prove good investment by leasing about acres of warm salt water rater in various bas Ws along the shores of japan planting S small oysters inov known n eclen as martenisi mar sl each year performing a major sur aleal operation on each of them then nursing the pit lents tenderly tefa derly for seven years an avenge averige of worth of japanese culture heirls Is produced produce d for world markets annually the originator and controlling cont rollina fac tor in this strange industry Is kochi cal moto known as tle tl e pearl hing king of japan for 23 2 years he operated nine i earl farms before raising a profitable crop now though by means of the scientific methods he developed he and hia his thousand assistants care for 7 pearl oysters constantly and the raising of culture pearls has ceased to be an experiment writes earl chapin may la in popular science monthly all pearls are produced by arri bated oysters A wild natural or vir or gin pearl results when a bit of sand a minute crustacean clusta cean or some other tiny foreign sub substance accidentally vitally gets into the 03 oysters ster s body if it Is not able to eject the intruder the oyster surrounds it with layers of a substance which in time becomes a pearl the great value of natural pearls la Is due chiefly to the fact that relatively few of them are of profit able size and quality in the comparatively warm sea wa ler ter of the moto pearl farms roll lions of small oysters hatched nat not aurally but under a certain amount of super supervision Islon float lor for a while and then antich themselves to small stones strewn on the bottom there chev for three yeata TI tien en japanese diving gills go down don and get them |
