Show japanese pearl farms prove good investment by leisling shout ab nit ecres of aimi wili salt writer in various arlous bins bays along the shores of 0 japan planting S small oysters known scion as Mirten gf each year performing a malor major sur nr cleal operation on each of 0 them then nursing the patients tenderly for seven years an average of 2 worth of japanese culture pearls Is produced for world markets annually the originator and controlling fac tor in this strange industry Is kochi chi known knon 0 as the pe genrl rl a king of japan for 23 years he 0 operated nine pearl farms before raising a profitable crop now na though by means of the scientific c me ghods he be developed he and hl his thousand ass assistants instants care for pearl oysters constantly arld and the raising of culture pearls has h is ceased to be tin an experiment writes nirl earl chapin may in popular science montah all pearls are produced by irrl fated oysters A wild natural or clr gin pearl results when hen a bit of of sand a minute crustacean or some other tiny foreign su substance stance accidentally gets into the oysters oi body it if it Is not able to eject the intruder the oyster surrounds it with layers lasers 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 milons ons of small oysters hatched naturally but under a certain amount of supervision float for a while and then attach themselves to small stones stone s strewn on the bottom there ther e they remain tor for three years T then japanese diving girls go down and get them |