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(about 3 cwts.), and sells for 5 francs. A single b&uchot, 

 therefore, bears about 60,000 or 75,000 kilogrammes annually 

 in weight, of the value of from 2000 to 2500 francs. The 

 whole harvest of these bouchots would therefore weigh from 

 30 to 35 millions of kilogrammes, which would yield a revenue 

 of something like a million francs. 



I hope this plan of mussel-culture will speedily be adopted 

 on our own coasts ; it would be a saving of both time and 

 money to the fishermen, who cannot do without bait in large 

 quantities, seeing that the number of hooks required for the 

 line-fishing has so largely increased during late years. The 

 procuring of the necessary quantity of mussels is sometimes 

 impossible ; and when that is the case the men cannot pro- 

 ceed to the fishing, but have to remain at home in forced 

 idleness till the bait can be obtained. This plan of growing 

 the mussels might be easily adopted by our fisher-folks, whom 

 it is now my province to describe. 



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