| Show japanese pearl farms prove good investment by leasing about acres of warm salt water in various bays along alone the shores of japan planting small oysters known scientifically as mart martenot enst each yet year perform ne B R major sur aleal operation opera tInn on each of them then nursing the patients parents tenderly for seven years nn an average of 0 worth of japanese culture pearl li Is produced for world markets annually ann itally tho originator and controlling factor in this strange industry Is kochi chi moto known knon as the pearl king of japan for 23 years he operated nine pearl farms before raising a profitable crop now though by menns means of the scientific methods he be developed lie he and his thousand assistants care tor for pearl oysters constantly and the raising of culture pearls has ceased to be an experiment writes earl chapan may in popular science monthly all pearls are produced by irritated oysters A wild natural or virgin pearl results when lien a bit of sand a minute crustacean or some other tiny foreign substance accidentally gets into the body it if it its Is not cot able to eject the intruder t the e oyster surrounds it with aaers of a substance which in time becomes a pearl the great value of natural pearls Is due chiefly to the fact that relatively few of them are of profitable size and quality in the comparatively warm sea water of the pearl farms millions of small oysters hatched naturally but under a certain amount of supervision float for a while and then attach themselves to small stones strewn on the bottom there they remain for three years then japanese diving girls go down and get them |
