| Show prof francis hobart herrick predicts a gloomy future for the lobster lie ile says it is in course of ultimate extinction its enemies are too many for st it it will die off not because of any fault or depravity of its own but because it c cannot annot increase fast enough to keep up w N fill the demand for it yet this white while it may not be a fault is certainly it a shortcoming prof hobart shows that the a average crage size of the lobster is decreasing the chances of its growing to its proper stature are diminishing steadily every year Itha it has even seven greater fecundity than the rabbit of australia but its capacity for self preservation is not equal to the rabbits this argues a deficiency in brain br ain rower power w u bach the warmest frioud friend of the lobster will have to admit it is consoling from one point of view to reflect that the woes boes of the lobster are not because of 0 ding it 11 has IS not increased luer eased till in the matter of population it has begun bagull to crowd upon its means of subsistence cuts no figure in the case it is not a theory but a condition that confronts the he lobster napoleons wars reduced the he stature of frenchmen an inch and ft a half air the war on oil the lobster is having a like result except that the abys physical degeneration in its case is much more marked and startling hig what Is to be donel done nothing the appetite for lobster once formed is ble the war will go on oil till the lobster is extinct it is written on the he pages of destiny and on the worlds bills of fare |
