Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-04-26

foliation, whereas the morus multicaulls
gives merchantable article in less time
from the planting than does the Indian
corn.
Mr.. Olmstead. Of East Hartford, Con-
necticu', exhibited specimens at the conven.
ton in Baltimore, of sewing silk, raised on
his land by Mr.. Danforth the last season,
from trees planted from the 18th to the 2ota
Of May. Some specimens manufactured
by himself were from trees planted from the
9Th 10 the 18th of May, tie cocoons having
been formed and ready for manufacture BY
the lsh Of July following, being but lit
tie more than two months from the time OF
planting, and shelving the prac,icabilily Of
getting crop Of silk, nearly as soon as a
eroppf cucumbers! The very great ad.
vantage of this mulberry, says Mr.. Danforh,
Of Connecticu, over standard Trees, mean.
ing the Italian or white mulberry tree, till
then in use) was manifest while such trees
are difficult of access. and from the small
size of their leaves requiring much labour to
gather any quantity, it was easy for child
to take from the morus muticaulls from fif.
teen to twenty pounds in an hour Shall
we then, ingenuously search ng after truth,
shut our eyes to the influence of new facts,
scarcely less important to the matter in hand
than was the invention Of Whtney's cotton
gin or the application of steam to navigation? =?
Mr.. Danforh, whose communication We
shall publish, made under specified and un-
deniable disadvantages, at the rate of Sc
venty.lwo pounds Of silk to the acre, and is
confident that under circumstances within
The control Of the cullivator, it would have
been easy TO make hundred and twenty.
FIVE pounds TO The acre which even at six
dollars the pound would be seven hundred
and fifty dollars-now suppose we take half
of that, and what other use of land will yield
half as much? Mr. Danforth says further,
that not person employed in the culture Of
the trees or The care Of the worms had ever
before seen a Tree or silk worm!
But we have said, that the work is already
5egun--that silk culture is thing in esse
and rapidly progressing. With opportuni-
ties Of observation as yet but limited, since
the commencemcn of our editorial duties, it
is already known 10 US that in the way of
cocooneries for breeding silk worms, Mr..
Cheney, of Burlington, in the autumn of
1887, built. and has in full operation CO.
coonery, one hundred feet long, two stories
high, thirty feet wide, and nine feet between
io,s,c with ~ello- ,-A~- ,h~ '''H>''~ =.
which he can feed mi lion OF worms at
one time successfully.
Mr.. Physick, worthy son OF the Amer.
can luminary in the sciences OF medicine
and surgery, has built, near Germantown,
cocoonery oftwo hundred and (ifly feet long,
thirty feet wide, and two stories high, with a
cellar under the whole.
The Silk Company Of Baltimore, have
purchased a water power and building for
large silk mandatory.
A friend in the District Of Columbia, who
was in great part educated in Francois
man Of much observation and travel, and
not likely TO he humbugged-after minute
inquiry and the most mature reflection, has
entered largely into the business Of rearing
sik-and he writes as follows:
'February2, 1889.
Il have received your letter covering the
prospectus ofthe Journal Of the American
Silk Society and Rural Economist The
name is happily chosen, and | trust that
the paper will be highly useful and be looked
up to as the best authority on the very in
teresting subject Of which it is destined 10
treat. Be assured that will do all | can to
promote The growth of mulberries and the
production Of silk, by other means as well
as by planting and spinning. That silk is
soon to be one Of our great staples, have
no doubt, and that tn ,se who now push the
business will make great fortunes In short
time, is to ME equally clear. am building
a small laboratory, or cocoonery, htty feet
long, by twenty. five wide, and two stories
high, about large enough to feed million
Of worms--.his for a beginning. | shall not
have leaves for more worms next year, but
the year after, dec volente, | will do ten
times as much. AS 10 silk worms eggs
The price here is too high. have sent 10
France for my supply, and shall have
think some to spare, at rather less than $40
an ounce, the price charged BY the venders
Of this coun'ry.~
At Fredericksburg, Mr.. Smith has built a
cocoonery, of one hundred and fifty ieet
long-two stories high.
AT the old Armory, in Virginia, a large
establishment is being built by Mr.. Pleas
ants and Mr.. Randolph, and Mr.. Pollock
proposes, as will be seen in this number, TO
build mandatory that shall call for one
hundred thousand dollars worth ofsIlk IN q
year.
The New Castle county (Del.) Silk
Company, is builuing cocoonery to feed
one and half millions of worms this year,
and five millions the next, besides several
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