Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1838-10-18

he could hear Of nj any establishment, amount
ed To no more than forty pounds. IL was true, IT, al
NJ some OF them silk manufactures we're carried on'
and they had hcen AT others. which had suspended
| OF stopped manufacturing. ON account ri peennin
~ dlfheultesi but the materials for lcse manniae-
lures were mostly imported from foreign countries.
" The only inference which can dra" irnn,
the Information before us. and the testimony above
referred Ia, positive and negative, ~. that most ol
the adventuters the silk business $50 cniled have
considered the making Of silk NJ secondary. ute
fioi, and perhaps contingent object, and have been
aboiing aud Specializing III the culture Of mulhrr-
" plants. not In feed silk worms, but Ia sell to
newer adycrutrfs and the vast profits TO be derived
from the making of silk were held up to the public
principally 10 produce etentet .apciness 10 purchase
the plants and cuttings NJ Chinese and other sarlc-
ties of the mulberry ut the enormous aud eNtofton-
ale prices NJ which hcy have been sold"
But without the advance of prices, for plants OF
the mVitieduiis, those heretofore obtained sniff
clcnty high 10 make IT Tar more profitable 10 sell the
plants, than To keep them To feed silk worms on, OF
than 10 pnisne any other branch OF agricultural m
dnstry. From every single cutting OF one bud, fall
lowing for all necessary iiSk OF loss and tufe) may
be raised, III Ncar plant o four feet more in
height and soeh plants, tot ono years e,owih) dI-
vested OF all the side branches have been sold fcgn
larly and readily NJ S25 per hundred aud the twies,
trimmed oil, nj - per hundred huds--aud II siuec
plant will sometimes produce n huudicd such buds
An acre Of ,leh land viii bting more than o 900
heI IN Que seaaon. EN cutting of the whole tops,
at the gtonnd tso rs to take away every bnd1 each
loot VIII, 10 tue second summer, produce llnce or
four times buds In the hst years growth,
10 be again cut a and sold. Were there ever great
er profits oiieledi Aud IS it not pcticctly natural
and reasonable that these rto6ls should be preferred
To those offered by silk culture piopct though
doubled by legislative bounties."
But the Register by no means dscourages The
,als'ng of s'lh, or of the Mulberry. 1t seys-"Wc
fully believe III the sultableness Of the slave holdlug
States iot both and are confident that tar nAls
will show very profitable results Aud II the doubt,
aud disbelief just expressed. ale indeed uulouud,d
aud unsonnd. aud New England IS, Ia truth, well a.
daptcd Tor silk culture then, J3riiori 50 much the
more profitable must be IN Virginia, bccanse of our
warmc, and longer summers. We have also other
advantages (Which we have several times heloie utg
e IN our ldt cheaper land and cheaper slave-labor.
Many slaves could he Produces who now are molcly
consumers. We alc now, Is heretofore, and rs also
frequently expressed, ANXIOUS that The business Of
mlelng SILK shall be properly commenced aud pu,su
ed IN Virginia; vet have but liulo favor ior, ot
confidence ~ iho new born zeal for raising mulberry
plants mrros 10 sell at gtGat profit 10 Other persons
VIII" will buy them with pteeisei, the same ohert.
The Northern NURSERY men have 10 yet had the
supply ollhc southern deuaud Tor these plants,
although II double the puoes at which lar better
pltuts nigh lave been bought III Virginia. john
Cmtcr, near Richmond, who wcui catly, too ealy,
II sccmed,) INTO this business for want oil put-
ehascts, had 10 DIR mp aud throw away thousands Of
" ung moras malfcdUAS tees, after they had gown
81 I.'rgc thai he could spare them the ground
they %, cupled- Subsequently, he sold the remnant
10 u clel Eoithern nursery man. AT less than hall
the prlcc N wi ch these tor much ones. II not
tlirsrD we've sect back from New York. and sold IN
Virginia, and ~ some cases pfobably 10 gentle men
not from Richmond, but who had not heard OF any
supply be obtained except from Northern nurse
RES. The farther North the plants raised, and
Ia. /, Il
wo, So they 10 propagate from. The Northern
nnrsrt, endeAvor to Iencdy the defect Of their
climate b, rang the richest soil aud the nos slinl-
uhttiup cuIfh,r The Plants pushed in growth
and ,"hcn winter s'ops their further
vegetation, half the 80 IS increase ct wood Is nha-
tnre, and Is ~ sneculen al teha'f as 10 De hoaole
10 stand the winter, and u, fl 20 raise h'n, even II
kept through winter sheltered rom frost. These
immature buds however, 1rH Stit! and Ihey are NJ
Tor yotlIing else. southern plant, r,'seG Nilhp"'
forcing culture, Is worth more. proungnte ON.
than half dozen from Nunhern nursery, Of equal
slze. This has already been fully proved in NHgl-
TIA, by those who have BROUGHT plants and cuttings
from the Nolih, as well m AZ home and subjrc.
ted 9TH to the like treatment after benz planted
In = subsequent aulcc Of the same No. OF the
Register (lhc Octobcr No) the Editor takes more
favorable view Of the present Mulberry speculltlon
lie states as the result OF further Information, that
The demand for plants oi the Chinese mulberry has
indeed so greatly increased NJ The North thai every
plant aud cutting Ia VHeiua, may be sold tins
year to Northern purchasers Al the highest prices.
10 our preYions views and recommendations, there
lore, would add the advice 10 all who have plants
10 spare not 10 sell any spectators lower than At
the highest prices; to ra,se ~ many plants as posi-
Bile IN $50, from the stock retained, and II be pre-
pared ihen 10 supply the whole country, AT greatly
reduced prices, and yet at greater profits than the
highest prices al present would give. Every single
bud planted next Spring aud well taken OIL will
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