CHEAP OYSTERS.

A PLEASANT WARTIME ECONOMY.

The economically minded might well turn their attention to oysters, which are just now cheaper than they ever have been and on which there is no waste. Cooking oysters can be bought for 6d. a dozen, and when it is considered that 100 oysters contain 41b. "of “ meat" (this is a fishmonger’s own description), the price will be seen to be low enough. The special qualities of oysters are their digestibility and the proportion they contain of organic phosphorus, which is a necessary brain food.

. Mr. George Tabor, ok George Tabor (Limited), Peninsular House, who has oyster beds in Kent and Essex, stated yesterday that the cheapness of British rock oysters and natives was explained by tho heavy spats of the last six or seven years, and the larger proportion of young oysters winch survived. Each breeding season tho spawn of an oyster is about two million, a very large proportion of winch die. Owing to the good breeding seasons the number of oysters has largely increased. " In addition to this,” he added, “the demand from the Continent has ceased and has left us with a "large quantity on our hands. Ostend used to take an enormous number from us, and afterwards sent them to Russia...