Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 448
nently at-tached, through a cementwhich is secreted by a special gland and hardenswhen in contact with water. Farther along the beach, where there werenot so many barnacles, I found several stonesto which young oysters were attached. When oysters first emerge from the eggstage they are microscopic… … SMALL OYSTERS ATTACHED TO A STONE. NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. 938 by its lower valve. This fact is taken advan-tage of by oyster-farmers, who sow clean shells,gravel, or broken stone in places where the frywill settle, for if the little bodies fall on thesoft bottom or on a surface coated…
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