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wish to stock and there shake the young seedlings off on that par- 

 ticular ground without the great labor of picking, and then the web 

 is all ready to place back in position for taking more seed. We pro- 

 pose to let the young seedlings remain on the webbing for a year 

 and then by their weight they are easy to shake off and are large 

 enough to grow and do well. For convenience in transplanting the 

 webbing is the best scheme we have yet tried. 



We are placing on our beds this year lots of shingles dipped in 



lime and cement and setting them up in pairs, "cone" shape, and 

 shall see if that is as good a method as the webbing. Webbing 

 covers the ground very quickly and completely and at one-tenth the 

 cost of gravel. Gravel and shells, when they become dirty and moss- 

 covered, will not catch spat, but we can take the webbing out and 

 clean it and save all the cost of restocking with gravel. We also 

 show some of our two and three-year-old natives and also two and 

 three-year-old eastern oysters. The Eastern specimens we show 

 were grown on our beds from seed we bought in Connecticut. 



We are very hopeful that we shall secure a catch of spat from 



