Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1890 — A Lobster Farm. [ARTICLE]

A Lobster Farm.

t The following scheme for keeping live lobsters has been started by a Boston man in South port. Me. A large cove has been purchased and dammed up so that it forms a salt water lake. When the lobsters are brought from the fishermen they are put into this lake and kept until later in the season, when fewer of the fish are caught and the price is higher. The dam is sc built that a gate can be raised and the water let out and in again with the tide, thus having pure sea water at all times in the cove. As many as 5,00(1 lobsters can be kept in this place at a time. When the owner wants to get a lot he raises the gate at low tide, lets the water run out and then picks up all that he wants. S S