VISTAS IN SILK AND RAMIE 



the same belt along the Gulf Coast where its fellow 

 countryman, the tung tree, has been successfully ac- 

 climated, and because it grows best in a slightly acid 

 soil, it is not apt to move very far into Texas. The Delta 

 of the Mississippi is tempting territory, and there are 

 several trials going on there and at scattered points in 

 Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. 



After so many cries of "Wolf! Wolf!" one is inclined 

 to caution. Now, however, it really begins to seem that 

 we shall have a workable supply of this most versatile 

 fiber. With silk the South will have two more stout links 

 to its lengthening chain of chemurgic products. 



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