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SUMMARY OF SURVEY OF OYSTER BARS OF MARYLAND. 



Maryland Oyster Survey, or 1$ cents per bushel for the predicted 1 5,000, 000-bushel 

 increase in annual production. 



The total physical valuation of the oyster industry of Maryland is estimated 

 as being now approximately $20,000,000, and the predicted ultimate valuation has 

 been placed at $100,000,000. This makes the cost of the Maryland Oyster Survey 

 one-fifth of 1 per cent of the predicted ultimate value of the oyster industry to be 

 based on that work, or one-quarter of 1 per cent of the predicted increase in valua- 

 tion. (XLII,XLV.) 1 



CHRONOLOGICAL STATEMENT. 



The chronological account of the six years' work of the Maryland Oyster Survey 

 occupies many pages of both the publications of the Maryland Shell Fish Commis- 

 sion (XLIII, pp. 9-24, 37-38) 1 and the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey 

 (XVI, pp. 104-105; XVIII, pp. 17-18; XX, pp. 14-15; XXII, p. 15; XXVI, 

 pp. 15-16; XXVIII, pp. 21-22; XXX, pp. 13-14; XXXII, p. 13; XXXIX, 

 pp. 17-18; XL, pp. 19-20; XLIV, pp. 23-25; XLVI, pp. 22-23). 1 For the pur- 

 poses of this publication it is thought that it will be sufficient to give a table of the 

 dates of the beginning of the field work and the closing of the office work for each 

 county. The dates of the close of office work also being the dates of the filing of 

 the certified charts and reports marking the legal opening of each county for the 

 purpose of oyster culture under the provisions of the Haman Oyster Culture Law. 



County 



Beginning ol field 

 work 



Close of office work 



and date of filing of 



certified charts and 



reports 



Anne Arundel 



Somerset 



Wicomico 



Worcester 



Calvert 



Charles 



St. Marys 



Baltimore 



Kent 



Queen Annes 



Talbot 



Dorchester 



June 29, 1906 

 May 2, 1907 

 Aug. 27, 1907 

 Nov. 8, 1907 

 May 2, 1908 

 Aug. 18, 1908 

 May 2, 1908 

 Apr. 14, 1909 

 Apr. 14, 1909 

 Apr. 14, 1909 

 July 6, 1909 

 Mar. 14, 1910 



June 20, 1907 

 July 1, 1908 

 Dec. 1, 1908 

 Apr. 12, 1909 

 Dec. 14, 1909 

 Jan. 27, 1911 

 July 6, 1911 

 Aug. 10, 1911 

 Oct. 5, 1911 

 Nov. 29, 1911 

 July 20, 1912 

 Aug. 17, 1912 



PERSONNEL (1906-1912) 



The following list of those directly connected with the work of the Maryland 

 Oyster Survey, either as executives or technical experts, is given for purposes of ref- 

 erence only. So much could be said that is fine and true of the character and spirit 

 of the work of many who were directly and indirectly connected with the six years' 

 operations of the Maryland Oyster Survey, and the desire to say it is so great, that 

 under the circumstances the only practical course in a summary publication of this 

 sortisto omit all such comments. (XLIV, pp. 25-26; XLIII, pp. 11-25; XXXIV, 

 p. 13.) 1 



J See " References," p. 19. 



