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Westward, and separated from its sister reef by only a narrow 

 channel, is reef No. 3 which had on July 9th 62 young oysters on 

 100 shells and on September 22nd 128, of which 90 were on the 

 inner surfaces of the shells and 38 on the outer. Here again 70 

 per cent, of the young oysters had settled on the cleaner surfaces. 



MAP 



SHOWING LOCATION OF THE NATURAL REEFS EXAMINED, AND OF 

 THE PLANTINGS MADE. 



Two counts of the spat on the oyster reefs exposed at low tide 

 in the mouth of St. John's Bayou, were made, one in July and an- 

 other in September. In the former instance there were found on 

 TOO shells 126 young oysters, of which 81 were attached to the in- 



