OYSTER CULTURE IN ENGLAND. 



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SALES of OYSTERS, &c. to Mr. Gann during the First 



Half of 1877. 



(a) No sales of brood during the first three weeks. 



(b} Sales during two out of the four weeks only. 



(c) No sales during the week ending the igth of May. 



(d) Sales during two out of the four weeks. 



(e) Sales during three out of the five weeks. 



2nd. As to the sales to Mr. Roots in 1878 and 1879. 



Mr. Roots had no account of these sales ; the Com- 

 pany treated them as a cash transaction, and had also no 

 account of them. But I was nevertheless able to trace. the 

 sales with some exactness. Mr. Roots sold the oysters 

 which he purchased from the Company to the Whitstable 

 Company, and the foreman of the Whitstable Company 

 proved that in 1878 and 1879 he purchased 2704 oysters 

 and 85,968 brood from Mr. Roots. The counsel of the 

 Company endeavoured to show that, as Mr. Roots was a 

 general oyster merchant, some of this brood may have 

 come from other grounds than those of the Herne Bay 

 Company. But, without entering into all the reasons for 

 my opinion, I think it clear that substantially the whole of 



