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THE OYSTER. 



summer of 1883, and nearly the same ratio was ob- 

 tained, there being if bushels of living oysters for 

 each bushel of dead shells. 



The results of this examination are given in full in 

 the following table. 



TABLE No. 2. To SHOW THE NUMBER OF BUSHELS OF OYSTERS 

 TO EACH BUSHEL OF DEAD SHELLS. 



1876. 

 Logger. 



1879. 

 Winslow. 



1882. 



1883. 



Bodkin 1.22 



Sandy Point 



Hackett's Point 



Swan Point 1 .85 



Chester River 



Cornfield Creek 



Thomas' Point 3. 



Tally's- 



Scull Hall 



Chink Point 



Cook's Point 



Benoni's Point 



Castlehaven 



Horn Point 



Eastern Bay 



Kent Point 1.5 



Tilghman's Point 



Son th River 



Shackel's Point 



Du vall's Bar 



Brewer's Point 



Pnrdy'a Point 



Three Sisters. . .. 



Sharp's I eland 



Holland Point 3. 



Plum Point 4. 



Little Cove Point 1.85 



Hog Island 2.33 



Hawk's Nest 



Broom's Island 



Kent Island 2.33 



Piney Island 2.33 



Fishing Bay 9. 



Hooper's Strait 5.6 



James' Point , 4. 



Sharp's Island 5.6 



Poplar Island 5.6 



No Point Bar 



Great Roek 



Turtle Egg Rock 



Great Fox Island 4. 



South Marsh Island 5.6 



St. Michael's 5.6 



Bozman's Flats 2.33 



Roaring Point 3. 



41 

 .02 



15 



14 

 14 

 37 



.21 



28 

 85 



83 



57 



1 



14 



75 



.46 



3. 



4. 



2. 



1.8 

 .89 



3. 



1.16 



4. 



1.57 



1.33 



1.25 

 .17 



6. 



2. 



2. 

 .66 

 .33 

 .33 

 .66 



2.5 



1. 



1,5 

 J28 

 .18 



4. 



1. 

 .5 

 .79 

 .52 

 .25 



In 1876 Lugger found as the average for twenty beds 8.682 bushels of oysters for 

 each bushel or shells. 



In 1879 Winslow found as the average from seventeen beds 1.962 bushels or 

 oysters for each bushel of shells. 



In 1882 we found as the average for fourteen beds 1.81 bushels of oysters lor each 

 bushel of shells. 



In 1883 we found as the average for thirty-one beds 1.4-10 bushels of oysters for 

 each bushel of shells. 



