Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1891 — Profit In Clam Operations. [ARTICLE]

Profit In Clam Operations.

In Oldtown is a man who is making money fast out of clams, though he Is at present feeding the clams to his pigs. He keeps a hotel, and has bonded a clam flat down around Mount Desert. His clams arrive each day. He keeps them two weeks, feeding them on celery meal and Indian meal. They laugh and grow fat. Then he boils them, a bushel at a time. He puts in a quart of water, and takes out eight quarts. The water is strained and set aside for a day in a refrigerator. Then it is heated, seasoned with salt and pepper, and sold for 5 cents a glass. He has a big trade. A bushel of clams delivered costs 60 cents. He feeds them 40 cents’ worth. He gives a four-ounce drink. There are thirtytwo drinks in a gallon, and sixty-four drinks are secured from a bushel of clams.' Net profit on a bushel of clams, s2.2o—and he sells on some days six gallons. Many try to imitate him, but no one knows how to feed the clams as he does. His pigs grow fast, moreover.—Lewiston Journal. •