PRODUCE OF LAND, &LC. 



115 



The produce was as follows : 



kilograms white silk at 63 francs the 



kilogram, 1,830/. 60c. 



inferior silk at 18 francs the kilogram, 44 95 

 Deduct for Portage, 16 00 



1868/. 

 Value of the different remains coming from 



the remains of the filatures/ 115 



00 



Sum realized, 



For expenses of management, 17 1/. 75c. 

 For the filature and reeling, 263 85 



Profit, 



1938/. 55c. 



435 60 



1548/. 



The kilogram is 2 Ibs. 2 oz. and 4 gr. avoirdupois 

 the produce of an English acre and a quarter amounted 

 to 69^ pounds, and the amount of sales $350, or about 

 $5 per pound. The net profit also after deducting all 

 expenses, will be found to be $280 or more to the Eng- 

 lish acre from a young plantation. The number of trees 

 is not stuted in this account. 



I shall close this section with a calculation, and esti- 

 mate, which has been formed with very particular refer- 

 ence to the best informed in America. 



Mr. D'Homergue in his letter to the Hon. Andrew 

 Stephenson, Speaker of Congress, has indeed stated, 

 that 301)0 mulberry trees set on an acre of land, will 

 produce in seven years a crop of leaves of 90,000 Ibs. 

 in a season, sufficient for 7,500 Ibs. of cocoons. Again 

 the " Massachusetts Journal " of 1828, Vol. x. page 137, 

 says, that " a single acre planted with mulberry trees 

 will produce from five to six hundred pounds of raw 

 silk." 



Yet while I admit that the statements of M. D'Hom- 

 ergue and the Massachusetts Journal may be very much 

 overrated, I must also speak of the statements of Messrs. 



