Fremont Weekly Freeman

How They Raise Oysters.—In Shrewsbury Inlet, where the best oysters are raised, it is done in this wise:

The bed of the river is covered with transplants taken from the New Bay. They grow and fatten in three years, and increase in size is six fold. Each man that has planted has his own staked off, his stake coming above the water, which indicates his ground. This is much like farming in the water, for these oyster crops are frequently more profitable than a western wheat crop. Every year the demand is greater for oysters, and, of course, more care is taken and more capital invested in the seabed crop.