The Oyster-industryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1881 - 251 עמודים |
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עמוד 16 - But these Fuegians in the canoe were quite naked, and even one full-grown woman was absolutely so. It was raining heavily, and the fresh water, together with the spray, trickled down her body. In another...
עמוד 84 - SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
עמוד 19 - be great ones in form of a shoe-horn; some be a foot long; these breed on certain banks that are bare every spring tide. This fish without the shell is so big, that it must admit of a division before you can well get it into your mouth.
עמוד 229 - As it does not generally break up before it is raised above the surface of the sea, cautiously and anxiously I sunk my bucket to a level with the dredge's mouth, and proceeded in the most gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold air was too much for him, or the sight of the bucket too terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every...
עמוד 214 - European embryologists give of the oyster embryo at the time when it escapes from the mantle chamber of its parent. The American oyster reaches this stage in from twenty-four hours to six days after the egg is fertilized; the rate of development being determined mainly by the temperature of the water. Soon after the mantle has become connected with the stomach, this becomes united to the body wall at another point a little behind the mantle, and a second opening, the anus, is formed. The tract which...
עמוד 89 - Provided, however, That nothing in the foregoing agreement contained shall be construed to affect existing titles to property, corporeal or incorporeal, held under grants heretofore made by either of said States, nor to affect existing rights which said States, or either of them, or which the citizens of either of said States, may have by grant...
עמוד 16 - While going one day on shore near Wollaston Island we pulled alongside a canoe with six Fuegians. These were the most abject and miserable creatures I anywhere beheld. On the east coast the natives, as we have seen, have guanaco cloaks, and on the west they possess seal-skins. Amongst...
עמוד 47 - ... at mean low tide is fifteen or more feet in depth: Provided, however, no such dredges shall be used or operated by any vessel propelled by machinery. SEC. 5. No person shall take oysters from a public oyster ground or bed except between the hours of sunrise and sunset on any day. SEC. 6. No person shall be allowed to fish for oysters or other shellfish within the public fisheries of this state, unless he and his employer are at the time, and have been for one year next preceding, residents of...
עמוד 163 - ... is to be granted ; the number thereof and the county in which the same is to be used, and every applicant for such license shall pay to the clerk of the circuit court when such license may be granted, and before the issuing and delivery of the same...
עמוד 41 - ... the crop upon 80 acres of one plantation was completely destroyed by this or a similar beetle. During the present year it has become destructive on many sugar estates...