The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1867-08-03


you are the
Hear. Of The pebble, ~Orkinsnen.
Marrow and nerve OF human powers,
Mnt, on your Dended bAcks, sus.aIn
farough streaming time this sHId Of ours"
Arise 60 realisaIiccSssa of 'tt6e 'r,uth that
lie 4 VINO wegafd be free, himself must strike
the blow"
w. I'll. STEWART, Pre-. idenf,
q. z. IT, J.. Of Michi0In.
Z. d. BuRR, Secretary.
Silk Farms and Villages Hoyv Silk Is
made m LOmbardY.
A writer 10 the London Star, discoursing
Of the romance of a silk Dress" describ 8
visit to the silk factories of Lola-
hardy:
The Lombards are considered the most in
dustr'ous people in Italy, ard they appear
TO IKE work for its own sake as Sumo people
like dancing. They are the Yorkshiremeu
at Italy. They have little sor nothing % do
with the dolce far aiente or the Tu. Is, and
they know what it is to have winter once
a year, an advanss-s @ winch the Nsapoli
arc aot accustomed. The Lomocrda
/ ave no q asxaToni.. Their vagabonds are al
Iorsan-grindsrs, and they have the good
sense % send them out OF the country ~
soon ss posfible
Foremost among the gars-5f L0 pbardy
are the silkworms, gcid en-soiored cSte-pii-
lars, imported from Japan in the shelf sts'd
hatched 10 Lombardy. The valleys abound
n mulberry trees, casied "gclsi." which Sc
cure ricss nd sbnnS3ant silk harvest 10 the
spring Of the year ana sss.,saaost ell tne land
ed proprietors, Including the fnhabitaT3s
Of the small towns aud villages, are con-
nected in some way or other with the rear
ing OF silkworms, the eggs BY charcoal fires
OK otherwise, and feeding the wonderful
little insect on the much-foved mulberry
Leaf
In some Of the woskrooms which we visit
ed says the writer, We saw hundreds of
reams Of caterPiIlar's eggs, all waiting to De-
hstchsd. These eggs are about the siz, and
shape Of ping heads. and are imported into
Italy on cartoons TO which they are gum
med, and sold at 50 much qurs like note
paper The heat Of gas, or wood ire. or the
rays Of the sun, bsing Sufficient to rouse the
dormant life. Ny companion i-iormed ne
that In some towns the silkwJrms were al
ready busy with the nulberry leaves. and
that in Others the spinning was over-the
webs being in the hands Of the factory girls.
This was good news, for IL gave me the
prospect of bird's-eys visw Of thsir inter
esting iabors. from the frst 70 the last
stage.
The 6fst 'silk-feld'' which We visited vas
Q farm house. The farmer had invested In
eggs aud his viz. ald daughters were
busiiy engaged in feeding some Of the tiny
shel For this purpose they had collected
srsht haskstfuIs Of mulberry leaves, the
twigs and soilsd sulps Of which were cut
away 20 ~ not % offend the dainty palatss
of The future siIk-spinners AT some of the
tshies we saw silkworms Of larger growth.
some fullgrown or nearly 50, about two
inches Ions, yellow or cresm color, vith two
brown spots above the head, like painted
eye or mask, their real eyes and real
head, being much smaIler and occupying one
sxtsuivy of1 their kody, q enc 'tsil occu-
pied sth11 other, hesd and tail being much
si,ks. These able bodied climbers. twisting
b and out Of labyrintts Of Ieaves-crawlnR
ever juicy stalks, and letting themselves
dosn from heights ,oG vsrdurer-wers already |
With the msteri1ls for . Wholesale manufac- |
Edrp of silk goods, : fancy fair Of luxury and
Hs3lsh In an embroyo sEats Of maeect and |
lin being the opinion Of some au- |
Ihorities that the silkworm can do nothing |
without the mulberry Leaf, and OF others |
Ihat tie mulberry leaf 10 simply % be 70 |
ylsI1sd n an srticis ef food, snd not In il |
MI eondusive y The prodaction Of silk.
cAHsoess or Esas.-
Some of cards being still .sunhatched,"
ssked the price Of them, and expressed NV /
surprise that eggs laid 10 one country can L
u % admiribly dsveIopsd in another. and
'hdt'too aftsr long and trsublesome ses.l
Fo9agsy and in strange climate. This /
1r0ves, think, free trads il natural II noa /
! Gvine law. | VA informed that = p;oce
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