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Quantities of fishery products exported from Labrador for the year ending December 31, 



1883. 



[From the report of Hon. W.J. S. Donnelly, receiver-general of customs for Newfoundland.] 



Dried codfish quintals.. 368,089 



Pickled salmon tierces.. 899 



Preserved salmon tins.. 23,000 



Pickled trout barrels . . 547 



Pickled herring do 54, 162 



Seal skins number.. 490 



Seal oil tuns.. 26 



Cod oil .do.... 21 



Blubber do 3 



Oyster culture at Cold Spring Harbor, New York. — Mr. 

 Henry C. Bunce has for several years past with much persistencj' con- 

 tinued throwing overboard on his oyster grounds every season thou- 

 sands of bushels of tin cans, hoop skirts, branches of trees, and other 

 rubbish of various kinds. He now finds a splended set of oysters on 

 these odd receptacles. Some old hoop-skirt frames and tin cans con- 

 tain hundreds of the young oysters nicely started, while the boughs of 

 trees are thoroughly weighted down with them. The theory of Mr. 

 Bunce is that the spawn floats along about a foot or more from the bot- 

 tom and is more readily collected by the boughs and preserved. In 

 support of this theory he finds boughs at the height of a foot or more 

 from the bottom covered with the small seed oysters, while the shells on 

 the bottom near and surrounding these boughs contain none. The boughs 

 will in time rot down and the large oysters find a secure resting-place 

 on the bottom. — October, 1884. 



Proposed oyster planting in a salt lake. — Writing from Rix's 

 Mills, Ohio, under date of November 17, 1884, Mr. B. V. Moore says 

 " I am about removing to Texas, and the region where I intend f o 10 

 cate contains a salt lake covering perhaps 500 acres. I would be very 

 glad to make an experiment with oysters in this salt lake to see if they 

 can be propagated therein." 



Besults of oyster experiments at Saint Jerome in 1884.— 

 Writing from Saint Jerome Station October 20, 1884, Mr. W. de C. 

 Baveuel reports : " On Saturday I took up all of the collectors that I put 

 in the first pond except the shells that were sowed on the bottom, and 

 found 18 young oysters attached, varying in size from one-half an inch 

 to two and one half inches in diameter. I think that we may find 

 more on the shells in that pond. I also took up the collectors in the 

 small pond and found 3 in that, all on slate collectors. I have not 

 taken up the collectors in the other three ponds, though I have exam- 

 ined a great many of then), and can find no oysters at all. I had the 

 collectors that had nothing in them put away for future use, and those 

 with oysters attached put back in the ponds." 



