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possible. Persons choosing, may apply to me; I will give informa- 

 tion. If any will join us on our farm, we will be happy; if not, we go 

 on alone. 



Mr. Barbour. Have you seen the large leaf Canton and Broosa mul- 

 berry ? 



Mr. Rappallo. It is not the same. The Moretti was discovered 

 by a professor of Pavia, whose name it took. It is a scientific busi- 

 ness in Italy. They pay great attention to it, though here they think 

 anything will do ; inventing every day — all our experience of five or 

 six hundred years is nothing. 



Mr. Barbour. It has been doubted whether the business can 

 be made profitable on a small scale ; but let a man watch one 

 brood of chickens from hatching till they go to market, and the 

 profit won't be much ; yet chickens can be raised in a small 

 way profitably. A man and his boys may have silk-worms, the 

 boys and the silk-v^orms may be neglected, sometimes fed and 

 sometimes not. You may ask that man, and he will say he has not 

 gained anything. The truth is, in the northern States, the aggregate 

 of farming is made up of combined results — many little things. The 

 farmer has his hay, his corn, his dairy, and his vegetables. You will 

 not find the whole amount of either of them more than $5Q or $100. 

 Take Massachusetts, where I belong, you will not find one with $100 

 on any one article to send to market, on an average : but his profits 

 come out just in this way. He has a surplus of some five or six dif- 

 ferent articles; perhaps 100 bushels of potatoes, 100 bushels of corn, 

 some butter, some cheese, apples, &c., and altogether realizes a pretty 

 little sum. 



Mr. Leavenworth. I suggest that the committee be instructed to 

 petition the Legislature to give a bounty for ten years. In New-Jer- 

 sey it was repealed the first year. There is now a large mulberry 

 plantation near Red Bank, in that State, of 1,500 acres. 



THIRD DAY, October 11th. 



The convention was called to order by the President. 



Mr. Barlow, chairman of the Committee on Resolutions and Ad- 

 dress, then submitted their report. The address and resolutions were 

 read by sections, and adopted as follows : 



Resolved, That, as it may be clearly inferred from the constitution 

 and habits of the silk-worm, that it is designed by the Supreme Be- 

 ing to be subservient to man, so it may be concluded from the singu- 

 lar adaptation of the soil and climate of the United States to the 

 healthful growth of the worm, and the most valuable varieties of the 

 mulberry, that He has designed this to become a great silk producing 

 country — and that these facts indicate to the people of these States a 

 wide field of enterprise and industry, and to their governments a judi- 

 cious policy of encouragement and protection. 



Resolved, That the production and manufacture of silk in these 

 States is regarded by this convention as a matter of great national 

 importance, as an essential step towards our independence of fortign 

 countries for an article of universal necessity — as a branch of domes- 



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