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ces. In fact, we learn from several persons well 

 versed iti llie tnainiliiclure of Pi!k, ihiit llii? m:iie- 

 riiil (ioniiii^ Iron) vvurrn cotiiilries, sucli iis Indin, 

 S\ riii, &(•., IS niiicli le?s t-sJircnieii ;:ikI cl,ieu| er 

 ihiin iliiit which has been coileciei! Iruni ilie lem- 

 peraie pans ol' Enrofje. Fur ihis reH.-on we shall 

 not iWil llie next season to galhor a suffii-iem num- 

 ber ol'cocoons prodiiceil hy a rupid (nude of rear- 

 iiiij, lo enal>le us to compare the intrinsic; (juality 

 ol'theirsilU wiih tiia! ol'ihe same niaierial ohiained 

 by mea!i< of the old pruce?s Until then we pjiall 

 (brbear ijivin^ our oj)inion on the merii ol' the 

 abridi^ed mode of rearing hy ihe influence of a 

 hiijli lemperaiure, and we ihin)< it must be leli to 

 lime and exfierieiice to prove what this method 

 will show in the way ol" advanlagcs or difRculiies. 

 It is very desirai)le thai all ihe- worms should 

 hatch ihe same day, that the period ol'iheir moult- 

 ing should not he diflereni, and finally their ascent 

 on ihespinnmii: Irame should be made, if not ex- 

 actly at ihe same hour, at least in a short space o( 

 time, as, Ibr example, in one day. M. C. Beauvais 

 thinking that the inequality, more or less iireai, 

 observable in worms olthe same rearinir, proceeils 

 from the cause ihat ihe lemale butierflies are not 

 generally hatched the same day. and also becau.-e 

 they take several days lo make up the amount ol 

 their laying, ihoutih that all ihe innequaliiies ob- 

 servable in the dirtereni siajres of ihe exisienre ol 

 '.vorms, miirhi oriixinaie in ihe manner in which 

 the egifs are made ia the common way. To re- 

 medy this inconvenience, AI. C. Beauvais tried ai 

 the lime of his last crop, the Ibdowing process. 

 He selected at first ten times more cocoons than 

 are necessary to produce one ounce of eggs, ami 

 as the millers came out. he preserved only ihosi- 

 haiched ihe same day. Al'ierwards lie did the 

 same thing for the e^ns that were laid by the le- 

 male millers afier their lecunda<ion by the males. 

 Instead ol" pieservinir all the eirirs of the whole 

 layinii, he reserved Ibr a Tuiure learimx, ihose on- 

 ly laid by the lemales during ihe iwelve fir>t hours 

 alier their separation liom the males. We ou;.fhi 

 likewise to mention, that he manaued so that the 

 lenffih of the coupiinij; should he Ihe same Ibr all 

 the females, and as he had kepi ten limes more 

 cocoons than were necessary to make an ounce ol 

 eg^i tue first day ihe nnlleis came out, as soon as 

 he had enouah males and lemales lo irive him ihe 

 quantiiy ol" etrurs he reqnirfd, be stifled tliechrj'sa- 

 lis m the remaining cocoons so as lo preserve ihem 

 jbr reeling. By means o/ this process JNl. C. 

 Beauvais hopes ihat these effL's havino; all been 

 produced at nearly ihe same nine will have all the 

 qualities necessary to hatch simultaneously and 

 with an equal and perfect oriranizaiion. It will 

 then be ihe business ofihe rearer, he tells us, to 

 do noihiniz' 10 interrupt this harmony dur;nj>: the 

 file time of the worms; and the palm will be 

 given lo him who will obtain a spinning as rapid 

 and reijularas their hatching has been. 



Such are the hopes ol" success ihat M. C. 

 Beauvais enteiiains ol" this new melhoil of pro- 

 ducing the egjTS. VVe hope sincerely thit he will 

 not be disappointed in his expeeiaiions, and that 

 he may obtain such happy results ; but we onirhi 

 to mention to you, cemlemen, it appears very ilif- 

 ficult that, noiwiihsiandipix all liis care and pre- 

 caution, he should succeed in reforminir compleie- 

 ly the inequality between worms ofthe same rear- 

 ing, an inequality due, perhaps, to one of the laws 

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of nature, for we remark it every where among 

 livioiX hfiiigs. However, if even ihe new expe- 

 nmems nf Al. C Beauvais. on ihe meth m! of ini.- 

 proviiiir the layiiiif ol ihe emis of ihe silk-wornia 

 shuu'd not have all ihe suci'css wished lor, ii is 

 neveriheless f;rol able ihai ihe practical rearing 

 and ()hysiokii.'ical hisiory ol' the insect will derive 

 advaniages iherelrom. 



Duiiriu; ihe rearinjr that this able and zealoua 

 airriculturisi made m June, lb35, sixteen young 

 men, esiablished lh^•m^elves in \\n'. Bergerics de 

 Senari, and every day ihey were at ihe eslablish- 

 ment lo a?sisi in all iheo|)eraiions concerning silk- 

 worms, and lo instruct ihemsidves by practice. In 

 the spring of 1S36, ihe same thing was renewed, 

 hut the crowd ol persons, who came to learn the 

 art of rearing rilk- worms in the model cocoonery 

 of A'l. C. Beauvais, and to perlect themselves by 

 Ihe lessons of such an excellent master, was great- 

 er than lliai of the precedinir year. Your coni- 

 mi^siorlers visiied ihe Bergerics twice during l!ie 

 course of the labors and they Ibund each time a 

 cnlleciion of ihiriy persons, composed not only of 

 young men, Imt of men ol' all ages, who, during 

 one ::ionih, drew such instruciion from the esta- 

 biishmeni, thai each ol them ivas capable ol' ma- 

 iiaifiiig a cocoonery himself Tiiis is what we 

 ascertained al the period ol" our second visit, Irora 

 llie many questions pui to ihem. and ihe satisfac- 

 lory answers received. Thus in a veryshnri lime 

 M. C. Beauvais will have made excellent scho- 

 lars, who will he able in their turn, to give so id 

 iiis'ruclion, and diffuse good nieihuds in those dis- 

 iricis, where ihey intend esiablishmg this new 

 branch of" agricultural indnslry. 



M. Henry Bourdon, beirati to plant mulberry 

 trees at the end of the winter ol" 1835, and t-ince 

 ihat time he has increased his plants in such a 

 n)anner, th.M now he has Ihirteenand ihree-lburihs 

 acres ol" iiees of this species planted permanently, 

 .tnd at various distances, according a-- he wished 

 ihf^m to be more or less develo[)ed. The nearest 

 ones are about lour leei Irom each other, and the 

 iiirihest ones, are from ten to eleven li^et. This 

 pianimg made on ihineen ar,d three-lburth acres 

 mcludcs in all 10,715 trees, viz: 



Aluhicaulis .... 6,015 

 ■rVeesL'raftedin May, 1836 - - 4,100 



Wild mulb^•rry trees which miisf not be 

 gral"ted, and' of which the leaf is in- 

 tended to liied the worms in the first 

 age - - - - - 1,600 



He has also appropriated a space of 

 ground for a nursery, in which he haa 

 now young plants of two years - 6,300 

 Vounir plants of one year - - lo,0(J0 



Cutiingsuf muliicaulis - - - 10,000 



Total - 



- 30,300 



whic!) 30.300 mulberry trees, added to the 10,715 

 planted in the ihirteenand ihree-lburlh acres stated 

 aho>/e, gives him a total ol'41,015 trees, all intended 

 !"ur low irees. 



The greater part of these mulberry trees being 

 yet loo voung in 1836, to yield tlie quantiiy of 

 leaves, J\l. H. .Bourdon required to leed ihe worms 

 he intended rearing in liie s|)rini>-, he tried to get 

 some in his neiirhborbnod, and he was fortunate 

 enouirh to find a sufficient quantiiy id feed the 

 worms produced from two ounces of eggs. 



