PTTL] Le TTT LL - ¥ 75 PcRing Soff Crabs for Shpmen soft crab ag nérly a water animal, of | : ig hia tests, other discoveries were was found that the soft crab to a greater advan. ing its natural fla- 5 7 ; 5 g £ = £3 i i ' an extebt 'as to Mm a Seotable dusty A Ge Cre, ite the Rorthern markers; nd rise. grew, slowly at shipping the crabs 'by the building Philadelphia and ch had entered -- ' act of the general assembly of th state, the first day of May, and con- tinues until the first day of Novem- Up to a year ago hard crabs were caught the year around, al- though they. were scarce during the Winter nths, A law governing the catching of the hard. I member of ele ie bl ty aryland ature, fixing season the same as for the soft crab. During cold weather the crabs bury Pome: Fernwood low, marshes and shores of She Sate e and its tributaries, where they Bemain Yatil Warmer weather comes. During the oyster season many boat- men, in scraping for oysters with dredges, whi scrape the bottom, catch a few of the warm-weather shell- fish, but they are not of a sufficient amount o be shipped, Hence, the law governing the season for catching. While the crabs are buried in the mud thoy spawn and multiply faster than any known animal, insect or fish. When the crabbing season begins, Crisfield,the centre of this industry, Digsente a busy appearance. Hundreds bostmen are to be seen repainting, remodelling. and repairing their ves sels, proparatory to the great season which awaits them, and the packers afd | are equally as busily a gaged in topairing their crab ponds and houses, Bullding vew floats and making other preparations necessary to: handle the cath. Then, armed with nots, scrapes and dredges. the boatmen. who number "ver 1,500 in Crisfiold 'and | vicinity, proceed to catch the deligious soft crab. , These are caught in three ways. The serapers out a scrape, consist- ing of an iron framework covered with twine netting, allowing it tg reach the bottom. It. is then pulled in rap idly by mens "of a windloss, and, scraping the hottom ag the hoat sails I: rge numbers of crabs ave caught in by thé last | manner, the only difference being in the construction of "the dredge. The third way by which grabs are caught is known as trot lining. The trot line er generally crabs in a smaller boat, the "skip-jack" only one man being in éach boat. A long line, which surrounds the boat, supported on' the surface of the water by pieces of cork attached to the line, about two feet apart and having small pieces of bait tied to it less than a foot apart, is placed in the waiter, The boat is kept still, and soon crabs, sichting the bait, come to the surface and are caught by hand with a small net. Then the line is rebaited and again thrown opt to the crabs. The catching of crabs is always done in the morning, until a little after the noon hour, When the day's work is finished for the crabber, the boats came up to the wharves of the differ ent crab firms hy which thé men are employed, and the foreman of the firm counts out the catch. . The dav's catch is then placed in crab floats, within a large "pound," situated in the water. The soft crabs are ftlaced in certain floats, hard crate in other floats and the "'shed- ders" and other varieties at different stages of development placed in still other floats. These floats are comstructed of Iaths, nailed upright, ahout an ei hth of an inch adart. Midway fe tween the top and the bottom of the float a footboard is nailed edgeways all aronnd, and this board" rests on the surface of the 'water. The float is, therefore, about half in and half out of the water, the crabs in the float lyin+ in the portion covered by the water. In thess floats the "shedding" pro- tess it gone thronoh. Here the "'shred- comes a soft crab awd every stage of The 'floats are fished for hard and the net and hauled,' up to the boat. Crab dredgers work "in a similar soft crabs six times every, twenty-four der" crab sheds his hard shell and be- | development takes place: ! hours. The packer or an employee, in a yvawl boat or "gkiff,""" with a short- handled crab net, goes to each float, and catching each crab up separately velopment it is. All soit crabs have to be fished out hard chell, for, if allowed to remain The hard crabs are allowed to remain in the floats and fished out and ship- ped as needed, condition of the "hard" crab is a pro-| vision of nature which allows the| shellfish to grow. | long as it incases the body, growth is| not) possible. : its hard shell and emerces from it] with a skin as soft dnd pliable almost | as that of an infant. | tunity to grow. Gradually its soft! s%in hardens again into thto flinty | til it again becomes soft. the skin of the soft crah hardens rap- idly to its nsual condition--a couple of tides, or hali a day, } best class of the soft-shell variety. The packing for shipping of the soft. parts of the crab business. Reen ing six crabs are packed side by side clawe and fine folded up, one layer to a tray, then netting the size of the fray, - | Hung Chang, of China, several years | examines it to see what stage of de- [ago in New York, the sea food on the | | crabs--product of the Chesapeake and | and shipped as soon as they shed their | in the float over twenty-four hours, on the they will generally turn hard crabs. | King Edward of England. So, though {it is | peake soft crab and Crisfield, as the Many persons, unfamiliar with the! hahite of the crab, are confused by | Ome of the greatest features of the the terms "hard" and "soft," refer- [crab ind: ring to the same creature. The "'soft" meat picked from the comparatively new, having originated about twelve yoars ago, the hard crab The shell of the hard crab is almost | industry is rapidly 'becoming equal to as rigid as steel; and, of course, as that of the soft crab. | vats, having a capacity of from fi teen to twenty-five barrels at a time, and are steamed for about half an hour, by means boiler, "connected 'with the vat. The crabs are placed in the vats alive and At certain period--from twelve toi fifteen times in its life--the crab sheds! Tt is during this "soft" state that gf the crab takes advantage of oppor- every part pickers, and divided into three: ge- , rate o, shell, and when this stage is renched | © The a grade of meat ic the large once more the craly ceases to grow un- lump flake, which Lt fea oes so tral kaki [Boal of the tle 1t remains in its natural habi- claws; the second grade. k tat, on the bottom of river or hay, flake meat, x the 1. part of the claws andl sections of the wrying it to | fegular meat, . is picked from. the a condition thot removes \it from the 'small part of the elaws. the fins and the remainigg parts of the body. ' crab is one of the most imeaignt {containing from a. quart to a gallon. ¥ |The cans are erab 'boxes are mannfactured, contain {holding about. half a dozen, covered travs made of laths. The 'and anrrounded hy cracked ice, and with [are then ready for shipment. ° covered with a burlap {ployed in this branch of y meat is. shipped fo all parte of | ~ 1he netting is covered with dry | seaweed antl then cracked ice is placed over the seaweed, This tray is placed in the box, and the next tray, treated in the same manner, is placed on top of the first tray. | The lid is securely nailed on the box after all trays have been packed and | the crabs are ready for shipping. The average crab box has a capacity of {fifteen dozen. . The crab packer must be very parti- cular to pack livery. The important thing is to pack them so that thoy will lie in one posi- tion,amd yet not be so close | moving about in the box is fatal. | Then, again, the icing is a very par ticular point. They must be iced to lone degree for Baltimore, to another | degree for New York, to another for Chicago, and so on, according to | their destination. In shipping to extreme points the {much in insuring good delivery. | The worst enemy of the packer is | the oxpress company. The latter, as {a rule, has but a dim idea of the | difference between perishable freight' {and that which is not. | From two or three express earloads | |of soft crabs leave Crisfield by every | ftram in scason, and over a thousand | dozen are shipped daily by steamboat | to Baltimore. The average output of | soft crabs during the last few scasons has exceeded 3,000,000 dozen, they have brought an average price of FX thirty-six cents a dozen. will reach the dollar mark, while at | {other times it will not be more than | {a fourth of that amount. The mar- ket is governed by | catch, which, At the great dinner given for Li menu was composed mostly of soft, | shipped from Crisfield. Crisfield soft, | crabs also occupied a prominent place on the tdble at the coronation of not generally known, the Chesa- erab centre, over. are famous the world industry is thé delicions erab Y hard crab. ugh this branch of the Ds rd crabs are placed in cooking of a large steaming | h from the water, and at the end the cooking the meat is picked from) of the crab hy wothen is picked from th shellfish back of - the ae is picked from the larger 7, and the third grade, known ase This meat'is packed in ait-tight cans then placed in a box About 500 women pickers a eni- Floats in WAR Cras are Kept to dked the country and occupies a prominent place on the tables of the largest hotels, cafes and restaurants, being matle up in crab croguettes, deviled crabs and many other delicious dishes. Despite many discouragements, the people of this little Maryland town have forced from the world a hearty acknowledgment of the value of the sea food they have to offer. Millions of dollars each season are spent for {crabs in various forms, and the sup ply, although heavily drawn upon, does not seem to grow less. Men who boast of their victims would probably have more to say if they enu- merated their vices. At the age of 21 most men are too young to realize that they don't know it a the crustaceans just: ~ 4 : {right or he runs the risk of losing the | dents of McGill University. {entire shipment, for sometitnes they are five days on the road before do as to {mash one another. 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