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Oyster Bay, N. Y., oyster beds in 534 



soft clams at 591 



Oyster beds at New Haveii, Coim 542 



cleaning 523 



iu Chesapeake Bay 519 



laying out 543 



method of securing ground for 542 



private, in East River 534 



scrapers for 523 



boats at Long Islaud 534 



in Chesapeake Bay 549 



license for 551 



of Delaware Bay 530 



James River 526 



canoes 552 



crab, commercial importance of 648 



< labs, pickled 648 



culture 524 



deep-water, at New Haveii 540 



expense of 543 



experiments at Wood's Holl 544 



French methods of 544 



from the spawn .".:',9 



implements for 544 



obstacles to 546 



origin of 539 



preparation of ground for 541 



statistics of 545 



for Connecticut 545 



cutch or cultch 541 



dredges 537 



dredging in Chesapeake Bay 549 



method of 529,550 



sir-aim rs in 523, 538 



drinking 546 



embryo 508 



export trade 557 



statistics of 558 



farming at New Haven, Conn 545 



farms at New Haveii 543 



lisheries of France, by Major Hayes 573 



industry 505-565 



capital iu 564 



financial arrangements of 550 



statistics of ground outfit 565 



United States 564 



laws in Delaware and New Jersey 528 



Maryland 549 



Virginia 549 



markets 547 



floating 555 



packers, statistics of 5(il 



packing, enhancement in value in 565 



in Alabama 503 



Baltimore, Md 560 



Maryland 561 



North Carolina 562 



Virginia 562 



plant ing at Long Island 532,533 



San Francisco 538 



iu Connecticut 534 



Delaware 528 



Long Island Sound 534 



Narragansett Bay 536 



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Oyster planting in New Jersey 529 



New York Bay 532 



Virginia 526 



statistics for Long Island 534 



of 527,530,531 



platforms or board-banks 546 



schooners 525 



scows in New York 555 



scraping 551 



shell heaps 509, 563, 564 



shells, for hydraulic cement . 563 



making lime 518 



great quantities of 563 



utilization of 563 



sloops 535 



spawn, apparatus for holding 540 



French methods of handling 544 



shells for hold ing 543 



tooging in Chesapeake Bay 551 



Virginia 525 



longs, early use of 513 



in Long Island Sound 537 



trade in New England 558 



New York City 554 



of Chesapeake Bay 549 



Philadelphia 553 



vessels ' 535 



statistics of 561,564 



Oystermen of Chesapeake Bay 549, 550 



morals of 549-551 



number of 552 



statistics of 564 



wages of 550 



Oysters, bedding of 520, 523 



blister 540 



Blue Point 557 



orlginof 517 



boxes for 558 



breeding of 520 



canned .561,563 



fried 563 



causes of extinction of 513,514 



Colchester 517 



cullens 540 



cullentines 558 



culls 558 



cultivation of young 520 



culture, of, from the spawn 539 



decrease in, at Long Island 517 



Buzzard's Bay 515 



Uela ware Bay 518 



East Kivcr 517 



Gulf of Mexico 520 



Narragansett Bay 5 15 



natives, in Connecticut 516 



New York 517 



New Jersey 518 



Kappahnnnock Kiver 527 



on Pacific coast 520 



development of 507 



early use by Indians 512 



extinction of, in Massachusetts 514 



extras 558 



fatalities to young 546 



