Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1910 — Oyster Crop to Be Short This Year—Season Now Open. [ARTICLE]

Oyster Crop to Be Short This Year—Season Now Open.

Word comes from the oyster beds of Maryland and other districts that the oyster crop will be short again for the fall and winter season. As September is the first month of fall with the traditional “R,” the oyster season opened today. Frank Ross, better known as “Oyster Frank,” who owns ~ thirteen oyster beds at Colchester, Md., has just returned from his summer there. Mr. Ross says while the oyster crop is short, the quality of the oysters is better and the product of the Maryland fields will be the best shipped from there. He says the oyster season will be “officially” declared open this year on Labor Day, Sept. 5, according to oyster men. He says he will have choice specimens of the bivalves to serve to his Indianapolis friends on that day. Oysters are now shipped according the pure food law and they must arrive at their destination in as good condition as when they started or they will be condemned. All are sent in scaled packages. The railroads have arranged a new schedule between Baltimore and Indianapolis and, oysters hereafter will arrive in Indianapolis twenty-two hours after they leave the former city, or two hours shorter.