The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-01-05
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Reports Of Iss Prssrss In America, HI
| Climate and Soil Being Well Adapted.
An effort is being made by associa.
lions formed for the purpose toward q
revival Of silk culture in this country,
and very favorable reports are given
Of the progress being made In this di.
recticu.
The time was when this industry
was quite hourishing one here, says
the American Cultivation and some
time ago an article on the subject APP
| peared in these columns. in which the
climatic conditions and possibilities for
the success o. the industry were set
forth.
In this connection and for Tho encour-
/ a.cT"mi ':Lich .; ma. give We append
+ g. communication which recently APP
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. tUs state oi New io.a- Nc.tly, .as
( sA.s static alone in o., ma,ta. b.l the
( whole United StItcs and the Canadas
; we're enlisted in it. The business
started well; the mulberry trees were
planted and they grew well, extensive
| cocooncries were established, and silk
worms were fed and they grew well.
Large quantities OF cocOons were rails.
ed. and some OF the finest qualities of
silk were ruled from them tina. was
ever filletted in the world.
The business seemed so successful
that many a farmer and small house.
holder planted an orchard of mulberry
trees and the business would have
succeeded beyond eycrybody's expec.
tati0n had it been for two things:
first the speculation IN trees; second
there being TO market for cocoons.
The first experiment cos. the country
millions OF dollars. 1t was like all
new inventions. or progenitors of
new things who hardly ever reap the
bepefit Of their inventions, but their
successors or the second corporations
meet with better success This Is so
to-day Of the silk business To-day
there Is a market for all the cocoons
raised in this country and at a fair val.
uation. There are now over SEQ silh
manufacturers in the United States
and does any one suppose thai II the
same feeling existed now for cultlvatine
the mulberry trees and the silk worm as
in 1883 1889 and 1910 there would be
any such thing as failure? | think not.
when sixteen carloads Of skein silk
were transported u season % two past
in one shipment from Yokohama to
New York. amounting TO 81, 800. 600
passing through "a good a silk-grow.
ing country as ever was in japan or
China when the same sixteen carloads
could have been raised in this country
and the 81, 500 600 saved TO the unem.
ployed. it would seem as though thfs
second aitepp! 81 the cultivation Of
@ i9is sAk INDUSTRY IN this country would
be com4SndablA giving employme6t
In q new industry to thousands Of men,
women and children. -.-s.-
In 1843 the American institute Of
the city Of New York called toge,hei
. considerable number of gentlemen
silk growers from different parts Of the
United States and formed q convsn.
ton. Of which James Talmage was
made president with large list Of
other officers In pursuance OF that
call about sixty delegates assembled.
Mr. Talmage. in taking the chair
made some remarks. This said he,
is the first national silk convention
ever called in this country. Its object
Is to take into consideration the ex.
pediencH as well as the possibility
Of making silk one of the staples Of
the country and to ascertain whether
fits culture be or be not congenial to
the soil. and then 10 adviss those ca.
gagged in the matter TO go on with it,
II not to cease their labors. and ia
these ways the convention, in his opii.
ion would be able to DO a good deal o.
good.
Gen. Talmaoe then went o. 10 &.
press his opinion that lot only in oGA
part but in all parts % the United
States To- climate and the soil OF tho
cCIrtTy were mo-: admirably adapted
20 the culture Of .Ie silk worm. liz
stead of sending money out of The
country for the purchase OF what wo
can make ourselves, the general
would advise his countrymen to enter
into .he enterprise with vigor. to 90
to work like patriots aud 10 improve
the advantages which God and nature
had put into their hands for the pro.
duction of new staple. and one that
It was fully demonstrated must eventu.
ally turn out rich source of national
wealth.
THE present generation Of young
men know very little OF the silk cui.
ture a. It was followed fifty years ago
except by history. The business 20.