Show february has tivio Rs 4 parade 11 01 sy t february brings lent and lent brings the oyster into hu his element once more boosting sales over all other seasons of the year oyster farming is a million dollar business especially along the atlantic coast single firms control large underwater areas planting their shells above and moving them from place to place during a five year period while the young oysters grow and fatten fat ten A M INA above a dred e holding F about 12 bushels is pulled k up on deck p ik 14 4 tiel N r A crop of full grown oysters fresh irom from the beds off the connecticut shore is being unloaded by these men the conveyor carries ries them into the building a achere they are shocked washed culled and packed for the trade during the five years it takes lakes to raise aise r an oyster the farmer must tend his beds more carefully than a dirt farmer cultivates his crops 4 i x x i in these large tanks the lite oysters are being washed later they wilt will be graded according to size arid and packed in containers for shipment liar harvests vests begin each september continuing throughout the winter in may or june of each year the farmers plant thousands of bushels of shells in the hope of getting gelling young oysters to settle As 0 sometimes sometime a profitable bi product pearls |