218 TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL lllOLOCUCAL SOCIETY. 



No. of 

 Date. Place. bags 



taken. 

 April 12th Taken from Abbey Skear and laid 



down in the Channel ... ... 240 



April loth Taken from Abbey Skear and laid 



down in the Channel ... ... 204 



April 14th Taken from Crook Skear and laid 



down in the Channel ... ... 276 



April 15th Taken from Crook Skear and laid 



down in the Channel ... ... 144 



Total *864 



At Flookburgh two days — April 10th and 11th, — 

 were given for the transplanting. On the first day, 

 thirty-five men and fourteen boats were employed, on the 

 second day, eighteen men and nine boats. The mussels 

 were taken from " Roosebeck Outer Skear " and laid 

 down on " Cope Skear." The total number of bags was 

 230 and the average size of the mussels removed was 

 about one and three quarter inches. 



The transplanting at Bardsea was also done in two 

 days, May 2nd and 3rd. Six men and two carts were 

 employed and thirty-four cartloads of under-sized mussels 

 were removed to a new area. 



At Hanibleton, 420 bags of mussels were taken from 

 the liiver Wyre and laid down in " Staining Hole," and 

 at Knott End 330 bags were removed from various un- 

 favourable skears and laid down in deep water. Although 

 this is the first time that the industry in the Wyre and 

 ;ii Bardsea has been assisted by (lie Committee, the men 

 belonging to Hanibleton made an experiment in trans- 

 plan ling in 1904 which gave very satisfactory results. 



The following is a short account of the procedure 



adopted in the transplanting at Heysharn. A 



In May ;in additional hundred bags were taken from the 

 Skear.-> and laid in the Channel. 



