The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-03-28

guired. The bone and muscle of the most atblat,c i
robust are indispensable to the production of wheat while
the feeble powers of women and children are competent ~
the business of producing silk.
The power and capacity of country to produce s;b
unlimited and need not be measured by its CONSUMPTION o
that article We may we'll export own silks as FOREIGN
and, to large amount, supply the material to the em
manufacturer The south may add silk to their saneO
of cotton, RICE and tobacco for exportaon while the north
meet the consumption of the nation with the manu6
ture.
The sutableness of the soil and climate of the United
States for the culture of silk ndsputabe That matter
set at rest by the fact has been cultivated in Virginia and
Georga, and abandoned the time, account of any
physical deficiencies difficulties, but the profitable
culture of tobacco first and cotton afterwards The culture
longer protable and is believed that the nece
stiles of the SOUTH well the embarra of the north
point to greater diversity of the pursuits of agriculture as
the only practical remedy for both Ii cultivated to
very respectable amount in the state of Connecticut The
committee enabled to state, unquestionabe authority
that five small towns in that sate Produced season.
nearly two tons and half of silk, worth low cash
price, 1924 SS. Of this the of Mansfield, conaninga
population of about two thousand five hundred produced
243O lbs This silk is converted into the beautiful
ing silk, and other valuable manufactures, by the skill
and industry Of that enerprisng and ingenious peoples and
thus prepared worth from eight dollars per pound
This is said, greatly exceeds all the other dsposble pro-
duce of the town. and what recommends still the
attention of the American people, is the important fact, that
this added the other ordinary and accustomed produc
tions, without diminishing essentially any of them. II
poys old women, and Children incapable of the
abors of the field 1t occupies little space useful for
other purposes The mulberry beauties and embeshe the
instead OF encunOcrlng IL; the fences ahu
hedges and serving for ornamental shade trees The tree
dminhes much less than apple orchard the productive
powers of the soil for other purposes In word the culture
of this valuable material much positive creation derived
from the mysterious operations of interesting little insect
aided and directed by the cheap and attention of man.
Another consideration recommends the culture of this
precious material still further the interests and feelings Of
the American people. 1t is sectional Its culture may be
rendered coexensve with the union and carried high OF
least the fortyfth deg of north latitude The mulberry,
at this moment, growing far north Middebuy and
Burlington, in Fermon and, it believed will flourish wer-
the apple tree will grow 1t indigenous to the south
REGION and thrves there uxurantly than at the
north and wherever the mulberry will grow there the
silk he reared All may, therefore, participate in the
benefits of this culture; and community of interests aud Pr
suits cannot fail generate congenia feelings, and
facilitate the restoration of harmony political and social
relations
All this, too, may be done without nteruptng the ordinary
pursuits of agriculture The feeding of the commences
with the first opening of the mulberry leaf and continues Tor
the period of thirty days, when the commences he
process of spinning and eats The nursing oil the
worm, and the winding of the silk, is light indoor work.
The gathering of the leaves the appropriate employment
of children: and make fifteen pounds raw
silk, worth at least sixty dollars " in of six weeks
So many and weighty considerations concur in recon-
menng the culture of silk the American people, that the
committee do doubt that their sagacy and intelligence
well their urgent necessities will lead them speeoY
and extensively s adoption Under these circumstances
the introduction into the country of the best varieties OF null
berry matter of national Importance and your comntee
believe worthy of the fostering aud patronage oil n'
government
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