OYSTER CULTURE IN FRANCE. 



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The following figures, for which I am indebted to the 

 extreme courtesy of M. Lhopital, Commissary of Marine, 

 are in this point of view specially interesting. 



RESUME OF OYSTER OPERATIONS IN THE BASIN OF 



ARCACHON. 



On examination of these figures it will be seen : 



1 . That the number of the pares which in 1865 was 

 only 297, amounted in 1880 to 4,259. 



2. That during that period the number of oysters 

 exported rose from 10,584,550 to 1 95,477*357' repre- 

 senting a value of 4,254,465 francs. 



3. That from 1870 to 1880 the number of oysters 

 exported has exceeded one milliard, and it must be 

 remarked that the oysters cannot be sold until they 

 have obtained a minimum diameter of five centimetres. 



