Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1841-12-22

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The silk Business for 1881.
| The past season seems to have been
very suspicious to silk growers the
worms having in general been far more
healthy than in 1910, and the consequent
loss ard discouragement from that source
obVlated. In some instances, from want
| of sufficient ventilation, or proper food,
partial losses have been occasioned, but 10
some instances tie prompt use of lime as
RECOMMENDED by the French, and COM
fmunicated by Mr.. Smith to the American
/ public, has checked the diseases thus
produced, and saved the crop Many too
| have hate he'd more worms than the foliage
on hand could supply. and the worms
partly starved, made poor and imperfect
cocoons. But all these difficulties will be
; overcome by experience, and every thing
now indicates the success of this new and
4 important branch Of native production and
manufacture. 10 the middle and southern
States, particularly, the silk business Will
form an important source of wealth, as the
mulberry grows there with less care and
attention than farther north; bat the ex..
perience of the past season as we'll as that
of former years, proves that the mulberry
may be grown and silk made to great ad-
vantage as far north as the AID degree of
! latitude. Time only seems to be wanting
to make the silk crop, like that Of wheat
or corn, a part of every mans farming
operations and we think it may be relied
, on that if the silk culture ever becomes an
important item in oar domestic products
1 - lx.t h., Il
and effort, and not be 10 any degree owing
to the action Of the great Silk Societies
that have promised so much and perform
ed so little.
i To show what has been done, we make
) few extracts from papers now before US,
= and it will be seen that they are of the
E most encouraging nature:
! Mr. Campbell of Williamson Co. Tenn.
writes TO the Editor of the Agriculturist
cater giving away enough of my silk
4 worms, about the third moulting, to make.
! as | suppose. about fifteen bushels of
cocoons, l have gathered "a bushels of
cocoons out of the two houses you saw
s. me feeding in. | counted half bushel
and there We're 1900 in II, requiring
= $500 to the bushel. My worms were
healthy Throughout, but from their crowd
s ed situation, many of them were small,
IS and consequently made imperfect cocoons.
l. [ am of opinion would have made more
is silk with half the number OF worms"
!: Mr.. Morris Of Burlington, n. j., the
1t patentee of the improved silk frames, has
L. fed a great number of worms the past
= season and with the best success which
a he attributes in great measure to the
Us use of his frames for feeding, an opinion
ht strengthened by the favorable opinion oil
v others who have used them. His first
as crop gave about 50 bushels of cocoo1s,
~ AID he says in the Silk Record, vaIua-
RS bic work which be publishes, one bush,
ell OF peanuts has been reeIed, and afford
lie ed the unfailing average product of good
in peanut cocoons, 90 ounces of fine silk
lie DIR. t. White, gentleman thoroughly
ar acquainted with the silk culture in the
SO country; in a letter dated at Washington,
m says" The silk feeders this year are
re every where successful. In Kentucky.
ID Indiana and Ohio there will be several
It. thousand bushels of cocoons raised this
n, season. There is abundantly more silk
Id made this year than all the workmen In
n the United States can work ups
I'd The following extract of letter to the
o. Agriculturist, from Mr.. Fox. who super,
is intends one of the most successful silk
~ factories 10 the West, thai of Mt Pleasant
1e Ohio, thus describes the operations at tia
lg place: 1--WE have weighed off 800 Ibis.
and have Matched out 100000, and hav,
he no doubt by the time we have done feed
ly ing, we shall not fan short OF one million
to In the year 1889, never got more thar
e, IA ounces 10 the bushel; in 1910, | go
DC Is ounces. aud this year can average 1!
ut ounces of 6ne reeled silk to the bushe
cd from the white ard gray mammoth3 to-
no peanut | expect from 20 to Il ounces
ed Hitherto our reeleFs could not ayerag
K more than 8 ounces day, ten hours; thu
- season they are reefIng from ID to L
In Iounces, six or eight ibres to the thread
lerj We might multiply such extracts, bu
eh these, with what we hear and see of ID
as4 progress ofthe silk culture among US
ase the North, will show that The productio
be has taken deep, and we trust "a firm ho
er, in the country. II it succeeds, we sha
md no longer see half million of spec
ing shipped monthly 10 pay foreign nati,
IN for silk, because that nation refuses
md, exchange it for any of the productions
his our soil, or our manufactures. Mark