The Silk culture in the United States
Subtitle: embracing complete accounts of the latest and most approved modes of hatching, rearing and feeding the silk-worm, managing a cocoonery, reeling, spinning and manufacturing the silk, &c. &c. &c. : with brief historical sketches of the silk business, natural history of the silk-worm, the mulberry, &c., compiled from the most approved and reliable works, illustrated by numerous engravings of machinery and processes : to which is added Blydenburgh's manual of the silk culture, statistics of silk imports, &c. &c
Contributors: Barbour, I. R. (I. Richmond), contributor
Series: Useful works for the people -- no. VI; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part II
Publisher: Greeley & McElrath
Published: 1844
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Copyright date: 1843
Subjects: Sericulture; Silk industry; Silkworms
Notes: "The work ... has been prepared ... with the aid of Mr. I.R. Barbour ... [W]e have freely profited by the article on silk in Dr. Ure's ... Dictionary of arts and sciences, Mr. Bliss's Report on silk ... to the legislature of Ohio, Mr. Colman's Report to the Massachusetts legislature, &c.; while we have quoted entire the Silk manual of ... Mr. Blydenburgh."--Advertisement.

Reproduction of the original from the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.

Includes bibliographical references.