304 FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF FOREST, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 



Value of power vessels and appliances $384,475 00 



Total value of all vessels and appliances 760, 772 50 



Number of hands employed 1 , 581 



Amount paid in wages $663 , 033 00 



Value of shore property used in the business 317,175 00 



Bushels seed oysters produced 1, 43 5, 522 



Bushels of seed oysters planted 2 , 235 , 010 



Bushels seed oysters sold 651,410 



Bushels market oysters sold 1,5 76, 917 



Bushels clams sold 132 ,923 



Principal market Unites States 



Carried by Public Transportation Lines 



BUSHELS OYSTERS BUSHELS CLAMS LBS. FISH 



58,635.9 3,086.1 7,894,600 



1,500 9,000 500 



21,069 4,500 300,000 



75 6,483 8,000 



62,130 I '°95 12,540,000 



38,020 22,683 1,674,000 



io 5>9°3 



287,332 46,847 22,417,100 



The quantities carried to market by vessels owned or operated by oyster 

 planters do not enter into the foregoing table. 



New York, December 24, 1909. 



