Bull. U. S. F. C. 1891. European Methods of Oyster-culture. (To face page 406.) 
Plate LXXIX. 
Fig. 1. View of an Establishment at Bergen-op-Zoom, Holland. 
The dark foreground is the sloping landward side of the dike. The chalk-covered tiles are arranged ready to take 
over the dike, and be loaded upon the fishing vessels and transferred to the collecting grounds. The workshops 
are seen, and at the left over the tiles the margin of a culture pond. This land was formerly a polder. (Page 384.) 
Fig. 2. Fishing Boats receiving Cargo of T iles from the Establishment shown in Fig. 1 . 
A hand railroad is seen bringing the tiles over the crest of the dike. (Page 384.) 
