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Show X.obsters. During the past three months there were listed in Portland 826,671 live lobsters lob-sters and 23,756 canned lobsters. When we consider the fact that it takes on an average the meat of fifty lobsters to fill one dozen cans, and that the above figures fig-ures represent the importation of more than 1,500,000 lobsters in three months at this port alone, we get some idea of the enormous consumption of this article of food in this country, and the old inquiry as to how long this drain uponjhe rich resources of the coast can be stood naturally suggests itself. Portland Press. |
