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Summary — {Concluded). 



Number of sail vessels employed 104 



Tonnage of sail vessels 1,372.32 



Value of sail vessels $84,100 00 



Value of outfit 44,375 °° 



Number of other boats employed 392 



Value of other boats . $35,944 00 



Value of outfit 28,206 00 



Number of tongs used 722 



Number of dredges used 446 



Number of hands employed 870 



Amount paid in wages $258,015 41 



Value of shore property $88,950 00 



Bushels of market oysters produced 879,861 



Bushels of seed oysters produced . . . . . . . . . 138,559 



Bushels of seed oysters planted 755,419 



Bushels of seed oysters sold 90,803 



Value of seed oysters sold $37, I 5 I 5° 



Value of market oysters sold 1,052,841 62 



Bushels of clams produced 26,813 



Value of clams sold $58,742 09 



Principal market — New York and Europe. 



This does not imply that the production is double the amount specified, for 

 one grower with ten acres may produce more marketable oysters than another 

 with 100 acres. The same applies to all the statistics here given as to number, 

 tonnage, values of vessels employed, number of men employed, quantity and 

 value of equipment, value of shore property, amounts paid in wages, etc. 



Careful efforts were made to secure from various transportation lines the quan- 

 tity of oysters brought to market in the course of a year. In very few instances 

 were the figures immediately available, as no separate records of oyster shipments 

 were kept. Officials and employees very courteously estimated the quantities and 

 offered all the aid possible in determining tne volume of business. In nearly every 

 case, however, the figures were given, not as officially exact, but rather as 

 underestimates. Hence it may be assumed that the oyster trade of New York 



