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5th. Those in which the worm died before completing its cocoon, 

 6th. Such as are spotted, or otherwise damaged. 

 Cocoons should be transported in boxes or barrels to prevent their 

 becoming bruised. 



We have also invented a reel, which will save fifty cents per pound 

 in labor and waste, and make more and better silk than any other 

 with which we are acquainted, and on which a beginner can in a few 

 days make good silk. The reels are so small that they can be trans- 

 fitted at once to the doubling frames, or the silk may remain on them 

 and dry, or, be taken off and packed for market. By them are pro- 

 duced the same results sought to be obtained by others, but by entirely 

 different means, but without exposing the silk to knot or break in 

 doubling. We shall have a model for exhibition at the Fair, and hav- 

 ing patented the invention, shall be prepared to make them, and set 

 them up for filatures or private families. 



We will also purchase the silk reeled on them if desired. 

 We have one machine carried by water power, with eight pans con- 

 nected together, and are heated by steam and supplied with cold wa- 

 ter. There is one transverse motion for all the reels, which are 16 ; 

 (two for each pan,) yet each is separately fitted to be in or out of 

 gear. With this, Mr. Paine with seven boys, (aged from 12 to 16 

 years,) after a fortnight's training, can reel nine pounds per day of 

 ten hours, and better silk than the best Canton, and with very little 

 waste. Mr. Paine, himself, can reel two pounds a day, with half 

 the waste made by a common reeler. An English manufacturer in 

 this town, has procured samples of raw silk reeled in this way, to 

 send to England, as the result of American ingenuity, and of our suc- 

 cess in improving the silk manufacture; which samples he pronounc- 

 ed superior in evenness, color, and finish, to any he had ever seen. 



We invite the friends of silk culture to examine critically our reel, 

 and to pronounce decidedly on its merits. 



(We have this reel (with some improvements,) now in our filature, 

 at New-York, and shall ere long comply with this invitation. Has 

 Mr. P. seen the reel described in the letter of Mr. Van Tassel 1 



A. C. V. E.) 

 Edward Valentine, Silk Manufacturer, JYorthampton, Mass. — 

 I have just seen O. D. Paine's silk reel at work. I believe it a good 

 improvement. If I could buy my stock reeled the same way, I should 

 buy no other. 



Geo. W. Fargo, Passadumkeag, Me. — Has much confidence that 

 silk growing can be made profitable even in Maine. Says our worms 

 wound well after about 50 to 60 days. Experience has shown us, that 

 worms will live, and grow, and wind, being full fed at one time and 

 half starved at another, when fed on different kinds of mulberry at 

 different times, or on all kinds mixed. Indeed we can raise worms 

 to perfection, if we have the feed. The cold weather retarded their 

 progress, the nights particularly. The thermometer at no time dur- 

 ing the summer reached 70°. 



A. C. Van 'Evps, Auburn, {now of the JYew-York Filature, E. JVew- 

 York, L. I.) — My feeding has been done in a tent, 24 by 80 feet, cov- 



