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admiraljle coast that our island-home has, this de- 

 scription of food, which is both wholesome and nutri- 

 tious, could with due attention become so cheap that 

 it would be within the reach of both rich and poor. 

 I do not for a moment profess to an excess of 

 knowledge ; but while sojourning in Xorth America, 

 where oyster culture has been studied and practically 

 tested for many years, the experience of some of the 

 most capable persons in various sections of that 

 country I learned, and they unanimously agreed with 

 what I have so lately seen stated in your columns, 

 that a warm summer is the great desideratum for a 

 productive deposit of spat. In fact, I can see no 

 other feasil)le reasons to be advanced by our trans- 

 atlantic cousins for their well-known success than 

 that the warm waters of the Gulf Stream run along 

 their coast, and that they have intense, almost trd^- 

 ical, heat in summer — such, in fact, as we have had 

 during the past season. 



Your accounts unanimously agree that your de- 

 posits of spat have been most abundant this year ; 

 but if the heat should be less the coming one, and 

 should the j^roduce only be one-half, I am still con- 

 vinced that the returns would be far more than 

 sufiicient to iudemnil'y the outlay; however, if a 



