PART III. 



REELING AND MANUFACTURING SILK. 



IN Europe, where the divisibility of labor is carried 

 on to a great extent, it is thought necessary that the silk 

 should pass through the hands of many workmen before 

 Jt can be brought into goods for sale. But I have been 

 able with the assistance of one man, to turn my raw silk 

 to a profitable account in the manufacture of fringes, 

 cords, furniture bindings, &c, which are in demand in 

 our market, and which have produced more profit than 

 sewing silk. Those who do not choose to proceed any 

 farther in the business than to raise the cocoons, may re- 

 alize a reward for their indusrry, by selling the silk in 

 that shape. I have lately seen 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 1 which the article must 

 be sent to foreign manufacturers, if exported, and in 

 which it meets with a cash market in almost every part 



