ance of an old-fashioned beehive pierced with holes and 

 filled with common oyster and scallop shells, into which 

 spat enters freely and remains till collected. Curiously 

 enough, clutters, the fishermen's name for young barnacles, 

 which grow freely even on oysters themselves, do not find 

 their way inside these patent beehives, settling on the 

 outside only. In other parts of the world bundles of 

 faggots, anchored about a foot off the ground, have been 

 found successful in attracting the spat, and in France tiles 

 coated with whitening, lime, or cement, for the easy 

 removal of the spat, are found to be advantageous in this 

 respect. 



Two miles from Bergen, in 

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artificial oyster-breeding lake, where 



another method of cultivation is employed. Stout wires are 

 stretched across the lake below water-level, and from these 

 wires thinner wires are suspended to which birch faggots 

 or fascines are attached about one foot from the ground. 

 As these birch faggots do not last very long, the owner 

 proposes to use juniper branches in future. He abandoned 

 the use of tiles some years ago. Sometimes a raft on 

 barrels is moored out in the lake, on which men can stand 

 to haul up the faggots which are fastened to it. The area 

 of this lake is about ten thousand square yards, and the 

 sea water in it is kept up to the desired level by sluice 

 gates. The requisite addition of fresh water comes off the 

 land and in the form of rain, the lack of this supply lately 

 having prevented the oysters fattening. In a good year 

 this lake supplies about a million oysters for market. The 

 northerly situation of Norway accounts for the spat there 

 not being produced till the end of August and beginning of 

 September. The oyster is the same species as that 



