The Penn's Grove record., 1882-07-01
THE NEW SILK INDUSTRY.

lAG NEW DlLA lNLfOAl
Tie: greatest incentive to engage in
silk culsare is the knowledge that there
is a home market for e15, 600, 900 worth
of floss, which American manufacturers
are obliged to import from foreign lands.
The other consideration is, that silk cul-
turo furnishes women and children in
the rural districts, with a copgenial oc-
cupation that does not require constant
attention, and so will not interfere with
household duties.
In view of these facts the WoInen's
Silk Culture Association of Philadelphia
was organized two years ago, for the
purpose of calling the attention of the
women ofthe country to the opportunity
given them to establish a new industry,
both suitable and profitable; and also to
give the necessary instructions to all de-
string to engage in silk culture.
The success Of this pioneer association
is remarkable; there has been aroused a
wide spread interest in the cultivation of
coceons, that must go OF increasing I'M
til the am of the association is fulfilled.
This fact was most fercibly presented
at the last exhibition of the association,
at which the display Of cocoons vas very
fine and intesesting. The chief feature
of the exhibition was the display of spe.
cimen cocoons by the twenty-six conies-
tauts for the Strawbridge 6 Clothier pre-
miums. The first one of which, by tie
way. was carried off by Mrs Rebecca
Taylor, (mother of the late Bayard Tay-
lori, who is over SO years of age, ami a
sufferer from paralysis.
The association announces that through
the liberaiity Of Messrs. btrawbrIdge &
Clothier, the we'll known dry goods mer-
chants of Philadelphia, 1t is again enabled
to offer to the silk culturists the sum of
five hundred dollars in ten premiums, as
follows: First premium, 600; second
premium, $f5; third premium. $65; fourth
premium, $50; fifth premium, $50; sixth
premium, s45, seventh premium, $40;
eighth premium, ESQ; ninth premium,
s25; tenth premium, sl0. For these pre-
miums any resident of the United States
may contest. From the ten largest
amounts of ~cocoons. n pound viii be
taken, without selection, and the test OF
Keeling applied; the quantity and quality
will be the conditions for premium. APP
plication for competition must be en-
dorsed and the mount of this years co
coons raised by the c~ulturist, testified to
by some responsible person. Stock must
be sent not later than December /, 1882.
Anyone with sufficient land to grow a
few mulberry trees a and the rearing
of silk worms to the daily care and find
it a source of pleasure add profit. The
work occupies but a small portion Of the
year, and a child can attend to the daily
gathering of leaves and feeding the worm
II a supply of mulberry leaves cannot be
had, an Usage orange hedge will answer
every purpose. The Usage orange leaf is
food for the silk worms, from
which they spin splendid silk.
A very interesting event of national
interest, connected with this subject of
silk culture, has just occurred in Phila
delphia. The Women's Silk Culture
Association selected silk from twenty six
families living in fourteen states; had it
spun on q yankee" reel, made into a
web of twenty-eight thousand threads
of silk, and woven ~, a brocade on a JAG
guard loom, requiring three thousand
six hundred needles to form the original
and striking design. This is the first bro
cade ever woven in America of American
silk; and probably the heaviest intexture
of any brocade ever woven. II 10 known
as the Garfield dress, as it il the inten
ton of the association to present this
magnificent fabric to Mrs. James A. Gar