PART III. 



REELING AND MANUFACTURING SILK. 



THOSE who do not chose to proceed any farther in the 

 business than to raise the cocoons, may realize a reward 

 for their industry, by selling the silk in that shape. There 

 will probably be regular advertisements in the papers, 

 offering cash for cocoons ; and there is no doubt but that 

 there will soon be established throughout the United 

 States a regular market price for the article. 



But as raw silk is the shape in which the article must 

 be sent to foreign manufacturers, if exported, and in 

 which it meets with a cash market in almost every part 

 of Europe, and in many parts of our own country ; it be- 

 comes of great importance that we should reel the co- 

 coons, at least, and that in the most economical and pro- 

 fitable manner. The art of reeling was formerly carried 

 on to considerable extent in Georgia, and large quantities 

 of raw silk were exported. It has been carried on in 

 Connecticut for seventy years, in a way which will be 

 mentioned hereafter. Dr Franklin addressed a letter on 

 the subject to Dr Cadwallader Evans, from London, Jan- 



