Table No, i. — Showing the Number of Oysters no a Square 

 Yard in the Waters of Maryland in 1882 and 1883. 





Name of Bed. 



Bodkin 



Sandy Point 



Hackct t 's Point 



Swan Point 



South Side Chester Klver 



Cornrtcld Creek 



Thomas' Point 



Eound Point IJeef 



Thomas' Bar 



Tally's Point 



Scull Hall 



Chink Point 



Choptank River — 



Cook's Point 



Benoni's P oint 



Chlora's Point 



Todd's Point 



Castlehaven 



Horn Point 



Total in Choptank 



FirstKent Point 



South Kent Point 



Eastern Bay 



Cox's Creek 



Tilghman's Point to Wade's Point. 



South IMver 



Shackel's Point . 



Duvall's Ear 



Brewer's Point — 



Purdy's Point 



Three Sisters 



Poplar Island 



Sharp's Island 



Little Choptank No. 1 



Easised Point 



Hill's Point 



Nigger Head 



Holland Point 



Plum Point 



Daddy Dare 



Little" Corn Point 



H og I stand 



Hawk's Nest 



Broom's Island 



Middle Ground 



Kent Island 



Kent Island 



Potomac Kiver No. 1 



Corntield Point to Pitt's Point . . . . 



St. Mary's River 



St. George's Island 



Piney Point to Blackstone's Island 



Total in Potomac 



Piney Island Bar 



Fishing Bav Dredging Ground 



Fishing Bay Tonging Ground 



H ooper's Strait 



James' Point 



No Point Bar 



Great Rock 



Turtle Egg Rock 



Total 826 12C958 32405 



1732 



2318 



2978 



1954 



5280 



1-^1' 



1173 



3666 



2200 



2493 



1037 



2200 



S'la 



1173 



293 



733 



298 



293 



6562 



2064 



21£8 



587 



48' 



3666 



253 



220 



les 



513 



293 



7313 



2364 



1494 



2200 



2200 



1833 



1089 



6233 



403;^ 



1173 



1466 



2200 



£200 



2200 



1467 



488 



5463 



2787 



5183 



2787 



1687 



7333 



19827 



976 



488 



163 



488 



379 



813 



5708 



1626 



Percent'ge of 



gain or loss 

 since last ex- 

 amination, or 



Gain 



21 



181 



81 

 1C6 

 16 

 57 

 33 



67 



116 



114 



23 



185' 



12 



24 



Loss. 



Total number of beds examined 59 



Total number of dredgings 326 



Total number of square yards examined 120.9.58 



Total number of Oysters found 32.405 



Number of Oysters" to the square yard 267 



Number of Oysters to the square yard, exclusive of Hooper's Strait 235 



