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employed and we endeavour to produce every variety of 

 cloth that is likely to be made of this material. The 

 course of training was given to 19 persons, mainly those 

 who wish themselves to take it up as an industry or the 

 employees of those who are commencing the industry. The 

 Pusa Continuous Spinning Machine was perfected and 

 arrangements made for its sale. Assistance was given to 

 the inventor, Mr. R. W. Coryton, of a very ingenious 

 machine for cleaning the cocoons prior to spinning and this 

 machine is now being sold. Every process from rearing 

 the worms to weaving the cloth is being conducted in the 

 silk house, so that visitors can see and quickly understand 

 the whole process. The demand for seed has been very 

 large (in one month 2^ million eggs were sent out) and 

 arrangements were made for an exchange of seed between 

 rearers in different parts of India, this section being the 

 medium for effecting the exchange. Seed was supplied 

 from Pusa to as many persons as possible, but the demand 

 was far in excess of what ooufd be supplied. Many 

 hundreds of persons have given a trial to the industry and 

 while many have, for the present, stopped owing to the 

 absence of any means of disposing of small quantities of 

 cocoons, many are continuing successfully. No attempt 

 was made by this section to popularise or to draw attention 

 to this industry except in Tirhoot, with the sole exception 

 of the publication of an article in the Agricultural Journal 

 of India; yet hundreds of enquiries have come in, from 

 every part of India except Assam, and it is evident that, 

 if there was the organisation to help, advise and buy small 

 lots of cocoons, the industry could be taken up on a very 

 large scale, affording light remunerative work to women 

 and children which they take to readily. In Tirhoot, an 

 attempt was made to induce the Behar Indigo Concerns to 

 serve as buying centres for the hundreds of small lots of 

 cocoons that were being offered but this has failed. Many 

 Tirhoot rearers are still carrying on the industry in order 

 to make and sell cloth but at the commencement all small 

 rearers} want to sell cocoons. The industry is establishing 



