Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-06-28
From the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel.
THE SILK CULTURE IN GEORGIA.

THE SILK CULTURE IN GEORGIA.
We had intended to have said something
In favor of lhe cultivation of silk, and its inn.
mense importance to the Southern States.and
to Georgia in particular, but we find an edi.
torial arlic.e in the Macon Telegraph, which
so fully expresses our views upon the gen.
era question, that we eoRWX w. and shi 1d1p the
ourselves at present to brief notice Of the
progress of This business in and about our
city, so far as it has come under our obser.
vation.
A great number of persons in this city
and its immediate vicinity have planted the
Morus Multlcauis to greater or lesss ex-
tent; some for the purpose Of speculation.
in the trees alone, but the larger portion, we
believe, with view TO make experiments
in the production of Silk. Some are so
fully satisfied as to the ultimate success OF
the business, that they have embarked IN II
with the same feelings that a planter pur-
chases lands and negroes for the purpose OF
raising cotton. Among those who en-
barked largely in it we may name Messrs.
Cheeny & Hutchinson, as the largest plan.
,ers of the Morus Multcaulis. Mr.. Cheeny
is the editor of the "American Silk Grower"
published in Philadelphia is intimately &C.
ouain,ed with the whole business so far as
il has progressed in America, and after ex.
amining number of sections OF the Union,
decided upon this as the most propi'ious
for investing money in the culture of silk.
This firm has fitted up cocoonery in hand.
some and convenient style, and are now
feeding about 100000 worms. Mr.. Shaw,
a gentleman of character and intelligence
from Massachusetts, has become interested
with Messrs. Cheeny g. Hutchinson and su.
perintends tho cocoonery. they have
thus far used only the common white mul-
berry, in feeding, their multicaulis not being
sufficiently advanced to use the leaves from
it.
Messrs. Plant & Mithin have an extensive
cocoonery fitted up on the corner of Green
and Campbell streets. They are not near
so large planters of the Morus Muticaulis
as the firm above alluded to, but hey have
far exceeded any others in this vicinity in
the number of worms fed this season. In.
cludng those now on hand. they have feo
about 100000 worms, and have already
weighed forty pounds of cocosns. Inc
white mulberry alone was used at this CO.
coonery for some time, but they are no"
using the leaf of the Morus Multicaulls,
which but short experience satisfies them
is infinitely preferable to the other, not only
because it is easier raised, but because It's
more SPEEDILY gathered and far more nutrl-
tious, the worms actually abandoning the
White Mulberry to feed upon it. A large
quantity of their worms, now feeding, are
OF the second crop ofthis season, and in one
week from this time they will have cocoons
of the second crop Of this season, which IS
earlier than the frs feeding generally COM
mences in the Northern States? They
expect to raise fue SUCCESSIVE crops by the
middle ofNovember = This they will be
enabled to do from the Mulicaulis leaves
from the cuttings planted this year. These
facts speak volumes in favor of the supe1i'
oriiy of the South over the North for tho
prosecution of this business. Messrs. +.
g. NJ. have furnished US with many impor-
l.,ant hints gathered from their short expert
ence in the business which we cannot con-
dense in these remarks.
D.. Osborne, has also erected a COCOON