Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-02-27

if properly fed to the worms, TO make one
bushel of Cocoons or one pound of reele d
silk and further that from an acre planted
with multcau'is trees or cuttings, leaves,
enough may be gathcre the first season
that is The year they are plan led, to make
100 ID. Of silk which at present prices would
bring six or seven hundred dollars, and tws-
ted and died for sowing silk would bring
over one thousand dollars!
The Richmond Enquirer, after referring
70 these facts proceeds as follows;
This statement astonisles US. We took
the liberty in good humored way to warn
Mr.. 0. agains, hnmbuging the natives, and
running the whole country mad. lie ap.
pears % US t, be a plain, sensible man, and
to be Conscientious in his calculations. tie
said at once, that he would, like the old
! Hero, take the responsibility, and that he
was perfectly satisfied the experiment would
succeed in the United S;a;es that the to-
bacco lands of Virginia would not prove
nearly as productivc-;hat in North and
South Carolina, the average Gro? G. up'and
cotton was l50 lbs. and the medium! price
was not ovor II cents ; that IL Georgia, the
average crop 10 the acre was 200 lbs. at
l2l 2 GEMS and that it would thus take
forty acres Of cotton 10 equal the production
of one acre of silk in Connecticut. He
says that the raw silk is worth from E to 7
collars a ID and be concludes that it will
! COS. 50 to raise it Cor narket--lhat it is
better for US at first to hip it in the raw
state aud that France would take of US
mar 80 millions dollars per aunum. He
contends, that i, will be Eroftable for some
time to come, 10 raise the Morus Multicaulis,
! because it res;s upon tie solid basis of silk.
- He gave US a variety Of anecdotes, to
SHOW tie s.ca, profit which had been made
in Connecticut, by the sale of mulberry
cut;ings-and BY the sale Of a new article,
VIZ :the eggs hf silk worms. These arc in
crcasing in value. Since he left Baltimore,
where he attended as member OF the Silk
Convex: or, and thence visited the Southern
Sta,es as lar as ST. Augustine, he has receiy.
ed orders for $500 worth Of the eggs.
! In u worJ, we have never seen man,
iwho WIS better calculated to arouse up a
spirit Of enthusiasm, and set the people to
thinking, ifnot 10 turn their heads, about
this brilliant products n, than our worthy
friend from Connecticut. He says, if"we
succeed so we'll in Connecticut, why cannot
you do better in Virginia, with more &C.
NAL climate-where the Mulberry grows to
greater size, and the silk worm may have
three ins cad Of two generations in the sea-
som" Why, all that We can reply is, that
ii we were a> enerprizing, and as indus:ri.
Gus, and as cute, as our brethren Of Con-
ncctlcu', We might succeed, even better than
they. But,why cannot we be just as cute and
managing as they are? Aye, that is the
question.
this silk subject Mr.. O!mstead has favored
US with letter of his OIL the cultivation OF
tue Mu berry and the raising Of the silk
worm, which we shall lay before our read-
ers in few days.
The spirit is indeed moving.
Since the above article was in type, we un.
derstand, that gentleman, connected with
a Silk Manuiactory in New York, is about
10 purchase more than 800 acres OF land in
Ibis ncishbortood, for The purpose ofcstab-
Eseing large Mulberry Plantation, and an
extensive cocooncry. Speed the goodcanse.