Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1912 — PUTS WINGS ON OYSTERS [ARTICLE]

PUTS WINGS ON OYSTERS

Prof. McSorley of Seaford, L. U Crosses Them With Flying. > • < Fish. “Well, I guess the scientists of the world ready to come to me for kindergarten instruction again,” said Prof. Aloysios Darwin Huxley Columbus McSorley of Seaford, L. 1., when he dropped into town today for his regular weekly visit to Broadway, says., a New York correspondent of the Boston Herald. ~ - “Before the, end of the week they’ll have a dozen cigars, a new automobile, a couple of aeroplanes' and a combined breakfast food and furniture polish named after me. _. “This week I’ve finished a Job that I think is worth while. 1 ain’t going to give any exhibition of my latest hybrid, but, take it from me, it out- . hybrids anything in the hybridology line that ever was hybrided. That’s going some, too, for my barking dogfish that used to catch channel cats was pretty near perfection and my collapsible mule was the wonder of the age Jor a time. ;? “You see, this latest thing in hybridology is the result of my getting the rheumatics last fell digging clams. I found this year that I wasn’t as spry * as I used to be and couldn’t dig more than a ten or so of soft shells before noon, and when 1 started to rake oysters in. the Afternoon I felt tuckered out That got me thinking Schneider of Goose Creek would hear about thia, and I began thinking how to have the laugh on him. Before next spring I can have my oysters gathered at daylight without getting MtJtod sailed Sh^o^Mflßh 111 ! netted thTbest SXg bnmi ind brought them homo.

got friendly like, I let them play around the front yard wlth*my pet oysters until they got used to them. After a while I set some of the eggs in my incubator With oyster seed. “That was only the first stage. The flying fish, when hatched, looked a little like oysters and oysters 'a* little like flying fish. Then when these laid eggs and I hatched them they looked more alike than ever. “Now*l’ve got my flying oysters perfect When I want a mess of the best blue points all I’ve got to do is to ring a bell and the jump out of the oyster bed, sail right into the bin and wait to be opened. "I’m going to try to cross a . swordfish into the next year and make them self-opening, but I’ve been too busy frost fishing lately to work this scheme out to the best advantage.”