Dennis' silk manual
Subtitle: containing complete directions for cultivating the different kinds of mulberry trees, feeding silk worms, and manufacturing silk to profit ....
By: by Jonathan Dennis, Jr
Publisher: Press of Mahlon Day & Co.
Published: 1839
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Sericulture; Handbooks, manuals; Silk industry
Work titles: Silk manual
Table of contents: title: Part First. Directions for raising the various kinds of mulberry trees.; title: Part Second. Directions for hatching and feeding silk worms, and for preserving the eggs and cocoons.; title: Part Third. Directions for winding the silk from the cocoons and manufacturing sewing silk ; accompanied with cuts of the most approved silk machines.; title: [Part Fourth]. A supplement of extracts from various authors in relation to the profit of raising silk.