PREFACE. 



IN preparing this Manual the author has been guided 

 by the personal experience which he has had for several 

 years in the culture of the Mulberry Tree and rearing of 

 Silk Worms in the State of Massachusetts. 



In addition to the instruction which his own practical 

 knowledge in the business has suggested, he has made 

 use of the following works, from some of which he has 

 made considerable extracts, where he found the instruc- 

 tion conveyed was such, as from the test of experience 

 he could recommend, viz. The Manual published 

 under the authority of Congress ; the two first number? 

 of the Silk Culturist,by Dr Felix Pascalis, of New York ; 

 Mr Wm. H. Vernon's abridgment of the large French 

 work of M. de la Brousse ; Essays on American Silk, by 

 Messrs D'Homergue and Du Ponceau, of Philadelphia : 

 a pamphlet published by Gideon B. Smith, Esq. of Bal- 

 timore, and the 22d No. of Dr Lardner's Cabinet Cyclo- 

 pedia. The author tenders his thanks to several of the 



