Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-23

ange leaves during the past ruHihtci
with very satisfactory results.
Ia the first place the average num-
Der If cocoons to the pound Of cocoons
il from six 10 eight hundred and about
three pounds OF cocoon, make one
pound Of reeled silk. The quality. OF
silk Is equal in all appearance 10 that
OF the best Italian reeled silk.
At the exhibition of our association,
at st. Georges Hall, Mrs. DIR. Van
Dusen OF Tioga Station, presented TO
the association, eight ounces OF
cocoons, raised on Usage orange leaves,
these cOcoons were reeled during the
exhibition. and produced six and one
half ounces Of silk. This silk was
placed in the hands Of Messrs. ltscb-
ncr & Rossmasler, the large and we'll
known silk manufacturers Of our city,
to give il a thorough test 10 prove its
quality aud see If ii were equal To SILK
raised on white mulberry leaves. We
now have the results. Mr.. Richard
Ros-fnasler put the siIk into organzine
and tram. after dyeing il beautiful
red. then Mr.. Werner Itschner, the
well-known ribbon manufactures,
made il into some twenty yards OF rib
bon. which he sends with the follow
ing statement
ne Market street, Philadelphia,
April ). 1852. Ladies of the silk Gull
ture association: We send you twenty
wards of ribbon made from the silk
raised on Usage orange leaves, handed
to Us during your late exhibition. We
see no difference in thedye or weaving
from other silk. Respectfully,
WERNER ITsCHSER.
In planting trees for silk raising,
the mulberry Is decidedly recon-
lnended: and the Russian mulberry,
hardy a. a cotton wood. beautiful Us an
ash. l. doubly useful for fruit and val
liable for fence posts, while II Is the
tree used by our western silk culturists.
1t may be objected that as there il
only limited quantity Of irrigable
land In Colorado, it may be too valua-
BILE for such uses. The easiest way to
gather leaves for silk worm food is
from hedges. for which the mulberry
may be used to advantage. Lines OF
the trees, too, along roadways and irri-
eating canals may become "A thing OF
beauty TO the vision, and a source OF
profit tn the purse. Besides, the presi-
dent Of that sagacious corporation, the
New York silk Exchange, has lately
located a model silk farm at Park
Ridge, New Jersey, on land worth
from eighty Ia two hundred and fifty
dsiIarS per acre. With that as pre-
u dent we could hardly 20 wrong in
u-iug almost any amount of our fresh
enssi desert land for the same purpose.
a decided advantage We have Is
found ia our abundant elbow room in
lhis New West. Disease takes hold OF
the worms just in proportion as they
are crowded. Ia Europe, for instance,
they are oyer-populous, and any dis
ease spreads rapidly and becomes un-
manageable. Many OF us recoliect
carload OF the eggs which passed
through Cheyenne not very long
since.'o their way from Japan 10
France. Ii would be "a good many
hundred years before silk worms could
tread upon each others toes in this
country. And we might be able
20 supply France with eggs to bet
ter profit than far-off Japan can do.
Other parts of America have
already sent eggs to Turkey, France
ami Mexico aud are establishing rep
ut4gion. The profits of egg raising are
about double that OF the production of
silk and form an entirely separate
branch II the industry.
While 1t is true that some of our eld-
erly friends remember successful eX-
periments in silk on the Atlantic sea-
board il il also true that succeeding
generations of the worm thrive much
better and make a better quality of
silk where the climate Is pure and dry.
There is little need here of gathering
tile food for those voraeious eaters
days before il is needed, and storing
IL in the dark with care lest the leaves
wither and dry up, in preparation for
"A weeks rainy weather, as is done in
countries where rain is the rule in
stead of the exception. For diarrhma
is the result of damp diet for the in
sect, and earetakers try to prevent
such diseases by all means in their
power.
Ii any person knows Of anything in
or about Colorado which should show
il unsuitable for silk culture, he or she
would confer favor on several hun
dred people who intend to try it, by
mentioning the same. For myself, |
have conseientiously tried to find any
thing unsuited and have failed.
hood. But gigantic enterprises are
already carried 10 a successful issue,
and others are contemplated with the
energy which can know no failure.
We are all delighted, but not sur
prised, al the enthusiasm of Hon. w.
ID. Kelly when talking Of Pueblo's
steel works and other new enterprises
here. Mr.. Kelly Is OH the advi-
sorry board OF American Woman's
silk Culture Association, Nnd
we hope at his next visit
20 astonish him still further by drap-
ing the rooms where he is entertained.
IA Colorado raised, reeled and woven
silk hangiugs. And this Is an indus
try peculiarly suited TO us because so
many thousand inyalids find homes
here to prolong their lives, -invalids
who cannot dig the precious metals
or ride after the roaming herds
and who find ii exceedingly
dfilicalt To find anything TO
do commensurate with their strength.
We throw wide our doors 10
the Ill OF every nation; our climate
smiles its sunny welcome. Then,
when the boarded pittance is spent
that brought them here, they must toe
often smother their love of independ,
enec and cat the bread OF public OF
private charity. This We MI know is
- and will be so as long as our vast
plains lit themselves n mile above the
distant se1board and our grand noun,
tains tower beyond ndasmatic faint
and influence. The dissolved pearl /,
n our salnbrious air 90 many weary
man and woman who could live her,
but die elsewhere.
tan philanthropy and economy sug
gl,l anything as desirable as fiudinr