Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-03-27

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Tnis sum of 1929 25 100 francs, OBJ
timed. in the eleventh year of my!plantin-,
from the employment of a capi!ai Of 20o0
francs, is equal to IN rnercs;t of60 per cent.
And even If the whole expense Of 2sl2
o5 100 francs be counted as the capital. the
Interest will still b" above 4G per cent.
1t should be observed moreover that lhls
plantation gives product in the five years less
considerable, in truth, than " Il be the av-
eragc product bu, winch will progressively
increase with the growth OF the trees,
without TIC expenses being increased mthe
same proportion.
Sach results, obtained al Rolez, q point
Of the department where the climate is Sc
we're enough, and the temperature very avail
abe appear 10 MA | have said before,
eta kind to command tho ateation ofaIl the
pToprictors OF land proper for THIS culture.
Indeed, | ask Of you sir what Other brnnch
ofagrculural industry of RS 10 the culva.
tors such great profits 7"
The labor estimated by Mr.. Stone TO be re-
Quircd in attending 10 worms f,r. 100 ID. Of TX,
at the time when most labor is necessary, is
that Of two hands and boy or girl The
hands actually employed by Mons. Carrier in
making 92s 10. OF cocoons, or SO l5. of silk
was one man one woman and cid. From
the prices of labor put down by Mons. Car.
r:er, it appears that he valued his woman as
half hand, and the child che t!lad of Z hand.
The whole amount Of labor employed by Lin
was, therefore, equal to 6 Sc days Of a full
hand. Supposing the bcy or girl of Mr.. Stcne
equal, in like manner TO one third CT full
hand, and taking AZ days as the time which
the silk worms Of this country require TO be fed,
the to,a! amount Of labor necessary according
10 his estimate, to make 100 ID. of silk is
81 2-3 days of full hand. The worms fed
BY NJ. Carrier. live longer, and Of course, re-.
quire longer feeding and more labor than those
fed in this country. They also produce larger
cocoons but rot in sufficient proportion to
compensate for the greater labor. 1t is also
to be taken into the account in the experiment
rfM. Carrier, that the tree ON which he fed
was the Italian or comIuon White Mulberry.
Where as, in this country, the morus multi
caulis is now every where substituted; the
gathering CT leaves from which costs from one
tenth to one sixth less labor than from the
Italian, because the leaves are in this proper
ion larger, and there is no Climbing necessary
10 reach tLem.''
The experiment Of VI. Carrier ,c-mncs
not only the actual cost of feeding q given
number Of worms in France, but also the pro-
tit which the business regularly conducted
would yield. The profit he found TO be GO per
cent. Per aunutn upon the capital invested
But by substituting the morus muiticau.is
(Which. in 1888 the time Of the experiment,
was little known even in Francel for the mo-
rus aba, or Italian mulberry, the kind used by
him, the expense would have Geen much less
and the profit greater IN proportion. The
saving would have been rot only in the lato:
oegatheriug and feeding away the leaves but
also N 10 of the ii years rent Of the land, and
10 OF the II years expense ofcultiya:iou
embraced IN his account inasmuch as the
capital would have been productive from the
beginning, o: at the least, after the first year
had the multicaulis been used: And there alst
rouM hare been a still further saving in The ori
gnal cost Of The trees. Paradoxical as this state
ment may seem, when tire relative prices
OF the lnultlcaalis in this country, and the
ltallan tree IN France are considered, it is
nevertheless true For the price Of the mul.
ticaulis last winter was about cents per bud
and Mr.. Carrier puts down the first cost o,
bis trees at one frank, or more than ls cents
Now suppose person wishing 10 have 1000
Italian, and 1000 multicauis trees growing
next summer, his Italian trees, at NJ. Carriers
price, would cost him 1000 franks, equal to
S2s2, 20, besides the labor of planting them
Whereas 1000 multicau is buds procured a,
SSO, and merely stuck in the ground where he
wished his trees TO stand. would, by fall give
him lcOO trees larger than his italian, and
costing less than one sixth as much. The
mu.ticaulis would afforl some leaves for feed
ing the first season, and an abundant supply the
second ; whilst tie Italian trees could no, be
st.inDod q -!,:..os ~ snvn-a1~,,-s n