TABLE No. 1. SHOWING THE NUMBER OF OYSTERS TO A SQUARE 

 YARD IN THE WATERS OF MARYLAND IN 1882 AND 1883. 



NAME or BED. 



OYSTERS 

 TO 



SQUARE 

 lARD. 



ft*? 



S-sg 



*lll 



'ercent'ge of 

 gain or loes 

 since last ex- 



mination, or 

 since Itfl9. 



Gain Loes. 



Bodkin 



Sandy Point. 



Hackett's Point.* 



Swan Point 



South Side Cheater River , 



Cornfield Creek , 



Thomas' Point 



Rd~und Point Reef 



Thomas' Bar 



Tally'sPoint .. 



Scull Hall 



Chink Point 



Choptank Fiver- 

 Cook's Point. 



Benoni'p Point. , 

 Chlora's Point . , 



Todd's Point 



Castlehaven 



Horn Point 



Total in Choptank . 



First Kent Point . .. 



South Kent Point 



Eastern Bay 



Cox's Creek 



Tilghman'* Point to Wade's Point 



South River 



Shackel's Point 



Brewer's Point 



'urdy's Point 



'hree Sisters 



'oplar Island 



(harp's Island 



Jttle Choptank No. 1 



lagged Point 



HlTs Point 



Jigger Head 



lolfand Point 



luro Point 



)addyDare 



.Ittle Corn Point 



log Island 



Jawk'sNest ~.... 



Broom's Island 



Middle Ground 



Kent Island 



lent Island 



otomac River No. 1 



Cornfield Point to Pitt's Point . . . 



St. Mary's River 



St. George's Island 



Piney Point to Blackstone's Island 



Total.1n Potomac 



Piney Island Bar 



Fishing Bay Dredging Ground.... 



Fishing Bay Tonglng Ground 



Hooper's Strait 



James' Point 



NoPointBar 



Great Rock 



Turtle Egg Rock 



1788 



1247 



2200 

 2498 

 1087 



8777 



'II 



783 

 298 

 298 

 6562 



i 







22C 

 18S 

 518 

 293 

 7818 

 2864 

 1494 

 2200 

 2200 

 H 



4088 

 1178 



1466 

 2200 

 5200 

 220C 

 1467 



894 

 1164 

 3158 

 2838 



189 



11 

 IS 



1 



40 



150 

 757 



69 

 119 



24 

 575 

 186 

 225 

 190 

 200 

 340 

 165 

 1676 

 727 



88 



5185 



2787 



7833 

 J9627 

 97.6 

 488 

 163 

 488 

 879 

 818 

 5708 



2281 



1025 

 439 

 84 



4000 

 181 

 427 



1555 



.81 



151 



8.728 



552 



118 



1.05 



518] 



.805 



.057 

 .0858 

 .871 

 .089 

 .135 



522 



H 



.115 

 .01 

 .02 

 .51 



.117 



.041 



.1089 

 .66 

 .56 



.012 

 .085 

 .048 

 .084 

 ,0645 

 .OC57 

 .019 

 .21 

 .071 

 .27 

 .89 



.058 



.1 



.08 



.4176 



.078 



.1497 



-.114 

 -529 

 -.185 

 -.862 

 -.8732 

 -.048 

 -.38 

 -.284 



-.197 

 -JW 



-.059 



+ .091 

 -.302 



-.3856 

 -.363 

 -.878 

 + .761 

 -.869 

 + .841 

 + .444 

 + .67 

 + 541 

 + .141 

 + .54 

 -.885 



-.8209 

 -.407 

 -.884 



-!88J 

 -.8545 

 -.41SJ 

 .4 

 -509 

 -.848 

 -.149 

 -.0*9 

 -.188 

 + .281 

 -.8425 

 -.361 

 -.31* 

 -.33* 

 -.0014 

 -.326 

 -.2608 

 + .63 

 + .48: 



+ .098 

 + 7.781 



116 

 11 

 28 



1857 



ie 



24 



62 



95 



8-01 

 79 



Total. 



8261 120958 |S2405 



Total number of beds examined 



Total number of dredgings 



Total number of square yards examined 



Total number of Oysters found 



Numbe? of Oysters to the square yard 



Number of Oysters to the square yard, exclusive of Hooper s Strait. 



59 

 . 826 



.120.958 



. 82,405 



.267 



