60 MUSSEL CULTURE 



to reap a passing harvest, is false economy. 

 Mussels should rather be removed from some 

 other ground. Transplanting should also be freely 

 carried out wherever it is clear that any seed- 

 mussels are not growing rapidly, through being 

 too long dry at low water or too much exposed to 

 rough tides of pure salt water. 



Transplanting should also, of course, be resorted 

 to in all cases where seed is required to cover a 

 section of scalp from which a crop has been taken. 

 A convenient position to find seed for this purpose 

 is frequently in the deeper channels at the margins 

 of scalps, where spat has fallen out of ready reach. 

 The procuring of seed is in some localities difficult, 

 but if cultivation were more general, a supply of 

 seed would be abundant, which, if necessary, could 

 be brought considerable distances and sown on 

 the small home beds of fishing villages. 



Seed taken from Meep water beds' will not 

 admit of being carried so well as seed which is 

 inured to exposure from being left bare by the tide. 



In cases where bait is regularly supplied year 

 after year, the system of cropping beds in rotation, 

 or in sections, if a large scalp, should always be 

 practised, care being taken to have as many an- 

 nual crops as will suffice for the complete growth 



