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everything connected with it, labor, food and salary of some of 
the men that are employed, are about $3,500 a year, and it has 
been divided up so that in any one year we have not had any 
great expense, nothing to exceed $3,500, probably about $3,000. 
In the first place we got the Marine Laboratory that cost us 
$1,000, and then as was necessary and these experiments called 
for it, we added gradually. To start right with a plant to hold 
a million lobsters, I do not believe it would cost over $5,000 for 
the plant, machinery and everything. You do not need a large 
house-boat. Ours only cost $1,000. 
You must remember that all our work is not devoted to this 
one subject, and all this expense which is charged to the labora- 
tory work is divided. We spend a great deal of time on the 
clam business. We have developed an industry there in which 
there is any amount of money commercially, if people will take 
it up. We have demonstrated practically that sea farming pays 
better than land farming. We have demonstrated beyond ques- 
tion that seed clams placed in the shore and protected, in four- 
teen months will become edible. When they become edible they 
sell readily at wholesale at $1.25 per bushel. We can raise from 
700 to 1,500 bushels to the acre. That is quite a farm. 
Then we have taken up the artificial propagation of fish to a 
limited extent there. We thoroughly investigated the Star fish 
in all its phases. We have been through all these things and 
worked them down to a final conclusion. The only thing we 
have not reached is about some diseases of fish; and I do not 
think anybody is going to reach that right away. 
We have arrived at this point, that there is a great deal of 
interest in our state in the work we are doing. In our largest 
fair we made an exhibit last year called “Sea Farming” which 
attracted the attention of the public. This year they have asked 
us to make another, and we shall elaborate on the former ex- 
hibit. 
We are doing a labor of love. We do not get anything for 
it. Even Dr. Mead gets nothing for his services; but we think 
we are going to do some good. New Zealand has appropriated 
£7,500 for fish farming; and has sent over for all of our plans 
and apparatus, and are going into it with that amount appro- 
priated already. We have a good deal of correspondence from 
