REARING THE TUSSER SILKWORM. ay 
List of trees (with botanical and local names) found in the 
Hazareebagh Jungles on which silkworms can be reared or are 
found in their wild state:—1, Terminalia tomentosa (assun); 2, 
Shorea robusta (sal); 8, Terminaha belerica (baheera); 4, T. 
chebula (harra) ; 5, Buchanania latifolia (piar) ; 6, Ficus infectoria 
(pakur) ; 7, F’. religiosa (peepul); 8, F’. glomerata (goolur); 9, FP’. 
bengalensis (bur); 10, Bombax malabaricum (seemul) ; 11, Carrissa 
carandas (karrunda); 12, Bassia latifolia (mowha) ; 13, Anogeissus 
latifolia (dhorn dhonta); 14, Schleichera triyjuga (kussum); 15, 
Zizyphus jujuba (vair); 16, Terminalia arjuna (arjoon); 17, 
T. catappa (baddam); 18, Symplocos racemosa (lodh); 19, Arto- 
carpus integrifolia (kantal) ; 21, Anthocephalus cadamba (kadam) ; 
21, Gmelina arborea (gamar); 22, Dillenia wmdica (chalta); 23, 
Lagerstromia parviflora ( séd or sedah). 
I have no doubt that there are great many more on which the 
Tusser could be reared, as well as other wild silk-spinners, such 
as the Attacus atlas and other kinds of Antherea. But in the 
Hazareebagh district and adjoining ones the only one reared 
is the Tusser, and the principal food is Terminalia tomentosa 
(assun), probably because it 1s more plentiful; as the tree gives 
but a second-class wood for building, the natives do not care to 
cut it, as they do the Shorea robusta (sal) on which the worms 
also feed. 
The rule, so far as I can see, is, the less you have to take the 
worms from tree to tree the better, you must never touch the 
worms with the fingers, and the deeper is the jungle the larger 
and harder are the cocoons, so one must go into jungles far away 
from large towns to rear them profitably. 
I resided for fifteen years at Burhee, in the Hazareebagh 
district, and made the silk culture in open air a pleasant pastime 
and study. I visited the adjoining districts of Singbhoom, 
Manbbhoom Lohardugga, Palamow, and spent six months at 
Soorjoogah, passing by Mirzapore, Singrowlee and Rewah 
districts; in all these places the Tusser cocoons abound, and I 
have not the slightest doubt that a very profitable business could 
be carried on by renting at a nominal cost the vast tracts of 
jungles, and engaging a suitable number of men to carry on a 
large rearing establishment. ‘The great advantage one has is that 
in making use of the jungle, one has no expense in cultivating 
trees; the worms have also abundance of fresh leaves to feed 
