Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-05-30

With plentiful supply u these hedges, as
ne To be found all through om Western States.
II has been found that The nlk worm, icd iot
iom weeks on the leaves " the Usage 1tange,
and balance Of time, till the spinning period,
on the leaves OF the mulberry. produce an cS.
eellen, quality Of silk Il r,uI be femem.
beted, however, that the frs, feeding must be
on the Usage. and the last feeding on the
mulberry. This rule must never be reversed.
silk worms. icd first on mulberry and trans.
ieued from it TO Usage, will not thrive while,
on the contrary. " ied first ON Osage, and then
on mulberry, they thrive we'll | do not advise
this plan where mulberry is plenty, bu, In
cases where the latter is scarce. The silk pro.
duocd on the Usage leaves alone sells lof as
much as that produced on the mulberry, "thc
objections to the thofns OF the Usage (which
will disappear IN season OF two. with proper
pruning and ,uitisalon), aud because the ter
minal leaves. becoming succulont ot milky
just about the spinning time iot the worms,
induce disease II fed to them This latter,
observe, is avoided by feeding the leaves TO
the worms only for the first four weeks
Perhaps the Osage feeding is new TO Mr..
Marques. canno, pretend to enter into any
argument with those residing ON your Islands,
they understanding the climate, temperature,
soil, etc. which do not. Hut Mr.. Marques
being practical scriculturist and being there.
has grand opportunity to prove whether silk
culture can be made success on the Islands OF
not.
ain not an advocate Of the cold style" rules
ior piopagatng the mulberry tree ior silk food,
because | think them unnecessary. do net
believe in such severe "cutting down" year
after year, bu, advocate cutting sufficiently to
mpau vgor to the trees the lower branches
in particular, Feeding to the worms as VIC
do. by using the leaves con twig and branch"
Gu, from the trees judiciously, no, only benefits
the worm, bu, the pruning, consequent upon
such feeding, will be found to beneh, the trees
and be sufficient 'cutting down" to improve
them, while utilizing them from the and OF ,rd
year
Mr. Marques speaks truly as to the great
irui, producer, the Russian, being the least
profitable mulberry tree Tor silk raising, yet the
leaves are not "too coarse" to produce good
silk. The white mulberry will be the bes, to
commence with, and II desired the improved
and grated varieties may be got afterwards.
We advocate the Russian variety here, because
in some sections our winters are very severe,
and that tree is very hardy. This last winter
in Wisconsin where a nursery man had the
young Russian mulberry trees planted out,
twice the temperature was at 40 below zero
and the only injury done to the trees was n
little "nippng with frost" Of some Of the tip
ends Of the branches. not injuring the trees.
The mulberry silk worm tBon,byx Mori) is
the only one in this country producing market.
able silk, and believe the experimenting with
other species, in your country, would only end
as it did here, in waste Of time and failure.
Still perhaps it might be worth a trial.
NELLIE LINCOLN RossiTER.
New Lisbon, New Jersey, April IS, 1885.