The Development And Protection of the Oyster in Maryland
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and consists of a small, oval, sharply deiined •head,' and a long, delicate • tail,' ))y the lashing of which the dancing is ]ii'oduced.' These are the .s7;f/v//(7/(*..-of/, oi- • male i-ells," whose union with the eggs (ir ui'O of the female is necessary to the fertilization (d' the latter, and the conse- (pient hatching of living oysters." " Again quoting from Di-. r.roo]\s:'" ''The number of male cidls wliich a siiiule male will yi(dd is great beyond all power of expression, luit tlie number... of egy^s which an average female will furnisli may be estimated with suflacient exactness. .\ single I'ipe egg measures about one jive-hundredth of an inch in diameter, or five hundred laid in a row, tiuiching each other, would make one iiudi ; an:,n,0(Mi ('gy-s. Nearly all the eggs of a perfectly ripe female may be washed out of the ovary into a l)eaker of sea-water, and as tliey are heavier than the sea,-water, they soon sink to the bottmn, and the eggs of a medium- sized female will cover the bottom of a beaker two inches in diameter with a layer of eggs one-twentieth of an inch deep.
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