TRAINING AN OYSTER.
Sheridan lias told us that “an oyster may bo crossed in love,” but it has remained for Professor Stanley Gardiner, Professor of Zoology at Cambridge, to discover that oysters may bo trained to keep their shells shut (says the Daily Chronicle). So long as the shells remain closed and do not lose their shell water, the oysters remain good for human consumption, and cannot be infected. Professor Gardiner found that by alternately drying off oysters and placing them back on their beds for a day or two they can be taught to keep themselves closed. Many oysters were treated in this way at Holford, and sent to the Western Front and to the Grand Fleet. In one case 72 out of 100 were reported' as still fully retaining their shell water on the tenth day after dispatch from Cornwall, ‘ /
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1844, 19 June 1920, Page 12
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142TRAINING AN OYSTER. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1844, 19 June 1920, Page 12
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