OYSTER CULTURE IN AMERICA. 779 



No. i. Fifty Acres. 



2000 bushels spawners, at 30 cents $600 oo=i25 o o 



15,000 bushels shells, at 3 cents . . 450 00= 93 15 o 

 Planting 15,000 bushels shells, at 4 



cents Ooo 00= 125 o o 



$1650 00=^343 15 o 

 No. 2. Sixty Acres. 



2000 bushels spawners, at 56^ cents i 130 00=^235 8 4 



17,000 bushels shells, at 4 cents .. 680 00= 141 13 4 

 4453 bushels Bridgeport seed, at 10 



cents 445 30= 92 15 5 



$2255 30=^469 17 i 

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In a third case, Capt. George H. Townsend gave me 

 a statement of the expenses of starting a farm of 25 acres, 

 off the mouth of East Haven River. This was a more 

 elaborate arrangement, but on the other hand was accom- 

 plished, through ^L variety of favourable conditions, cheaper 

 than would have been possible with ground otherwise 

 situated. 



2000 bushels small river oysters, 



at 25 cents $5 00=^104 3 4 



Spreading same and staking, at 5 



cents . . . , 100 00= 20 16 8 



600 bushels dredged seed, at 40 cents 240 00= 50 o o 

 10,000 bushels of shells, put down 



at 4 cents 400 00= 8368 



$1240 00=^/^258 6 8 



" I think it would not be unfair to average the cost of 

 securing, surveying, and preparing the deep-water beds at 



