duce one tenth only of this quantity, then one-half would 

 be $93 75, and one-fourth, $56 87. This amounts to 

 about the same thing as calling the labor of gathering 

 the leaves and feeding the worms, double what it is calcu- 

 lated in the Franklin Journal, at the price of wages and 

 board which I have calculated. 



Now taking the smallest estimate of income, and in 

 what way can a farmer, remote from a seaport town, ac- 

 quire so much, with so little capital and labor, in about 

 five weeks time ? If any person will point out any way, 

 and prove it, to the satisfaction of the Legislature, or 

 Agricultural Society, I think he would merit a great 

 reward. But this business may be particularly recom- 

 mended to Overseers of the Poor in every town, who 

 have a farm, and every town ought to have one to 

 keep their paupers ; for if one half their paupers are able 

 to gather leaves and feed the worms five weeks, this 

 business would support all of them a year, exclusive of 

 the cost of an overseer. Permit me to suggest one con- 

 sideration more, if all the highways in country towns 

 were ornamented with a row of mulberry trees, on each 

 side, half a rod apart, each mile would contain 1380 

 trees, the income of which, after seven years, would pro- 

 bably pay for repairing all the highways and the expenses 

 of the public schools, if the inhabitants would restrain 

 their cattle and sheep from going at large. There is 

 another method of producing silk from mulberry trees, 

 one year after transplanting them ; which is, to plant 

 them in rows 3 feet by 2 apart, which would give about 

 7000 to an acre, and every other year with a sharp in- 

 strument to cut them off within three or four inches of 



