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 UNCLE SAM'S LOBSTER NUSERY

ere are some things you would see if you visited one of Uncle Sam's fish hatching stations. These pictures were taken at a hatchery where he makes a specialty of raising lobsters and turning them out in the ocean to grow up. Each mother lobster lays several thousand eggs attached by a kind of glue to her swimmerettes, as shown in the pictures below. At these fish hatcheries the eggs are hatched in glass jars. You see the hands of a man who is removing the eggs from a mother lobster. The lobster on the right is in what is called the first stage of growth. He has lost the power to swim and is learning to walk. " Lobster" is from an old Anglo Saxon word meaning "spider". Doesn't this baby lobster remind you of a Spider?

That man is putting scrambled hen's eggs, liver and beef finely cut, into the water to feed the baby lobsters.

Where the mother lobster carries her eggs

The copper ticket of the lobster below says: "Please return to Wickford Station and state where found."

At the fourth stage of growth lobsters are poured into the ocean.

Lobsters are caught in a pot or trap baited with fish or meat.

In this circle are four chapters in the story of a lobster's life. In the first two stages after the egg, lobsters can swim, but when they reach the fourth stage they lose the power to swim and must learn to walk, as baby lobster is doing at the top of the page.