Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1920 — Where Oysters Get Their Food [ARTICLE]

Where Oysters Get Their Food

The main food of oysters and other bivalves is vegetable dust “which Hi found, either in suspension In the water, -or deposited as the thin upper layer of the bottom itself, lifting and spreading at times in stormy weather, but only to bo precipitated anew later on."