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. SCIENTISTS AT WORK IN LONG ISLAND WATERS | f \/ ~~ HND WAY-TO FERTTYJZE OYSTER SEEDS ARTIFICIALLY Production of artificial \gets\. of growing oyster seed w @ discovery re- sulting from the work of scientists in the employ of the federal government, who have been at work in Long Island territory Tor several years past.. 'The weed taken from the female oyster are wriificialty fertilised with the milk from the male oyster, pérmitted to grow for a -time in large bottles, after which they are separated by centrifugal force, or rather concentrated in the same way cream is concentrated in cream separa- tors, and then raised to the stage in ~which -they-are-able -to-ittach them- welyes to shells or other objects, and produce a \set.\! Scientists from the Federal Bureau 6f Fisheries have made observations and done yariaus work at West Sayyilte for years. They have been here this summer and mre now mt work' in Long Island Sound, dragging nets of very fing silken which oyster spawn is collected, and they are now able to make. a prediction of a modest of seed oysters, predictions that are value to the industry in much the mame way that the observations of the weather bureau are to the farmers. It has remained, however, for a young scientist, W. F. Wells, of the New York: Conservation Commission, working in the plant of the Blue: points Company since about the 10th of June with infinite care and patience, to prove that oysters artificially propagnt- | 4 in much the same hat fish are propagated in the state tch- eries,, may be kept alive for weeks and Yeact the stage at which they attach} themselves to shells or other similar ob- jects and become what is known to the oystermen as set. This gives encour- agement to the belief that with similar .apparatus on a larger scale, It may be possible to produce a \set\ practically, in a commercial way and thus relieve the oyster grower of his greatest bugn- boo, the fear of a total failure of his Professor Broks, of Johns Hopkins University, working at Crisfield, Md., on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, demonstrated that pawn could be taken from the female oyster and fertilized by the milk from the larvaesare so minute, however, and the problems Involved in keeving them alive are so difficult that the biologists who have made a atudy of the matter 'he lust 40 years had.come to look upon it ms wimost as difficult of solution. as that of perpetual motion. Observations, which Mr. Wells made at Milford, Conn., :three years ago with the go nt Bursau of Fisheries, convinced him of. the possibility of working it out in a practical wily, and he succeeded in having the State Con- sorvation Commission, with which he is now connected. maké a small appropri- atioh and assign him to the task. Mr. Wells is convinced that the earil- er obkervers tailed chiefly because they underestimated the length of time in which the spawn floats about in the water before attaching itself shells or other solld substances. He in- clines to the belle that this period, under varying conditions may be three or four weeks, during which the prog- ress of the growth is very slow, On the other hand, the young oysters grow very rapidly once they have attached themselves: to a shell or similar sub- stance. ~ Mr. Wells \uses a large number of Muge bottles, which 'he has filled with water taken from various parts of the bay. These are connected by rubber tubes, and are képt in condition for his purpose by a process of nerfation and agitation. An important feature of Mr. Wells' process is the use of a> small separator, electrically operated, in which the principal of centrifugal force is to used, very much as in-a cream separa- tor, which enables him to concentrate the spawn for his experiments. While naturally much elated with the success attending his efforts, the young man is too modest to venture a positive opinion that his method is commercially practical, but he believes it quite possible that it may be, and in that event there is no reason why we should not have ' established here a hatchery for oysters maintained by the state, or perhaps by the federal govern- ment, similar to the well known fish propogating plant at Cold Spring Har-\ bor, and the lobster hatchery which the state of Rhode Island maintains at ® organization candidate mumb- trusted [j i i | | & G to go against the Republican plattorm, which declared that prohibition is not a state issue. \We know of no one who by reason of training, record, character and ex- perience is better qualified than you to champion for us the enforcement of the law. We appreciate the sacrifices involved after the two rigorous. cam- palgn# through which you passed. 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