Fig. 36. A powerful ice-breaking steamer owned at New 

 Haven, Conn. This vessel is capable of dredging 1,200 

 bushels of oysters an hour in water forty feet deep. From 

 a Renort of the Conn. Shell-fish Commission. 



Fit,. 37. The largest of the northern oyster fleet. This ves- 

 sel, drawing >i\ huge dredges, has a capacity of 8,500 

 bushel- oi oysters a day in forty feet of water. 



