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purchase money for about two acres, with cost of manure 

 and neceesary tillage, is estimated at $500. 



Supposing that to secure full success to this orchard by 

 using none of the foliage, and tilling and replacing dead 

 trees during five years, counting loss of interest and 

 other expenses accruing, we have an increase of debt of 

 $375, and a capital of $881 ; but commencing from the 

 fifth year up to the twentieth of its existence, the author 

 of these statistics forms three different periods of five 

 years each. The plantation will give in the first period 

 from 90 to 95 quintals of foliage, that is, 9000 Ibs. or 

 fodder for five ounces of worm seeds ; 35 pounds of 

 silk, about $180, that is, 20 per cent on $881. The 

 second period will annually afford for fourteen ounces, 

 15,000 quintals, or 95 Ibs. of silk, equal to 47 per cent 

 on $881. But the third period to the twentieth year of age 

 of the orchard, from 500 to 650 quintals may be expect- 

 ed, which will feed 28 ounces and give 196 Ibs. of silk, 

 worth nearly $1000, or more than 112 per cent. 



The following are remarks and calculations of my esti- 

 mable friends Messrs. Abner Brownell and John Macomber 

 of Westport Mass., who are engaged in the cultivation 

 of the Mulberry tree, and have a large number of them 

 of various sizes for sale. I furnished them with 

 buds of the Morus Multicaulis, from my nursery last 

 season. Although it is very evident that all calculations 

 on these subjects must be uncertain, yet I have thought 

 the following from judicious farmers might not be un- 

 acceptable. 



Mr J. D. Homergue, in his letter to the Hon. Andrew 

 Stevenson, Speaker of the House of Representatives in 



