Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-01
SILK LORE.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.

! To the Editor OF the Eagle
l have just made another very i'm
portant discovery III silk culture in an
swer to the oft repeated inquiry What
are we going to do with the silk worms
on hand when frost comes and destroys
our present crop of leaves:" / have Just
ascertained that dry leaves green leaves
cured III the shade and moistened) an
swer every purpose for feed; so that we
can continue the growing of silk worms
! If we like the year round. Usage orange
| leaves, as | discovered last season, I'M
| like mulberry leaves did not deteriorate
with age. This was the ground of my
| belief in the succession of broods and
has been practically demonstrated this
season not only to be true, but more so
from the fact that the gum, sugar and
milk in the leaf increases as the season
| advances in warmth and dry
ness, and is Just IN its
prime when it has the greatest
weight of foliage, and in drying this is
all preserved. You can NOW the new
shoots off with leaves on, which shoots
will now average three feet, and after
whiting bind them in bundles and carry
them TO the loft to dry-and when want
ell for use moisten them as needed. You
will find them useful 10 mature a crop
in the fall, and very serviceable next
spring during rainy weather when silk
worms are SUBJECTED with soft food and
require something more substantial.
This viii furnish means to make silk
culture perfectly successful throughout
the season and avoid the mould and dis
! ease that attends wet weather. 1t was
just what we wanted 10 complete our
plan of growing twenty broods of silk
worms season in Kansas, and | now
see no season in Kansas, and / now see
no reason why silk worm growing
here cannot be very profitable.
Ten to twenty pounds OF these leaves
will make pound OF silk worth 81.
The idea OF saving should be more en-
couraged by American people, and 1t is
to the rising generation that silk culture
the growing Of coCoons- is especially
to benefit.
Boys of Kansas, LEND me your ears
while | inform you that you can grow as
many dollars worth OF silk on a hedge
that surrounds a corn field as can be
grown of corn in the enclosure: besides,
pruning OF the hedge viii he beneficial
TO il.
To our girls, the reeling Of silk is espe-
cially adapted and Is equally profitable,
because it doubles its value.
To the middle aged, the weaving Of
silk has always been and doubtless ever
Will be the best paying Of all industries,
and 30 to 100 per cent better IN America
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protection TO American industries.
Go with ne TO a silk manufacturing
city in Connecticut, where You viii find
gardens hanging al the windows, happy
mothers standing at the doors watching
little children on the way TO school:
where the baby carriage is IN the front
yard, where flowers bloom over the en-
trance, to whose doors are vines from
which the sunlight flashes upon the
beaten path, in mingled checker work
of gold and CLEAN. where there are trees.
IN the midst Of which there are flowers;
from whose open doors issue the sound
of music: from whose windows yoa NAV
zee pictures, IL the center Of which
you may find 4 beautiful
hall with library, with al
the advantages OF social intercourse.
and the name OF that place, with lrs
hundreds and thousands Of people, the
sound OF whose looms and spindles add
to the content Of the summer day, Is
South Manchester. and these mills and
cottages and that happy population are
due 70 the policy OF protection 10 Aneri-
can industry, which has developed silk
manufacture IN the United States, aud
To the Cheenvs OF Connecticut. who are
/ the recogCIzal expoEeu1s there OF that
industry.
The law az adaptation teaches Us that
If the Chaenv Bros. ca1 make such q
favorable showing II mystic Connecticut
with duty On manufactured goods.
| with imperfect foreign raw SIX, how
much more co1ld they DO n clear Kan
sas with an additional duty On raw and
reeled silk, grown 10 perfection II or
climate: I .eave the future % answer.
II z E-C-ElL.