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performed by females, and by girls and boys. Yet this 

 will leave a balance of $1048 as the nett produce of an 

 acre of land in its prime estate. 



I have said nothing of the expense of reeling, from a 

 perfect confidence that the bounty offered in several of 

 the States, including Massachusetts, Connecticut and 

 Vermont, would be sufficient to pay for reeling it well. 

 This bounty will vary from fifty cents to eighty cents a 

 pound. I have also stated that in France a woman will 

 reel two pounds a day, and reel it well ; or silk of that 

 quality which when manufactured is worth $16 a pound. 

 Of other silk, or that which is reeled of two or three, or 

 four to five cocoons, a woman experienced may be able 

 to reel with perfect ease but a single pound a day. But 

 such silk, as I have elsewhere shewn, will command an 

 extraordinary price. 



But the State of New Jersey, and the great State of 

 Pennsylvania, have offered bounties, equivalent to $2 a 

 pound, for every pound of silk which shall be raised 

 and reeled within those States; and this bounty is to 

 continue for five years. And inasmuch as the whole 

 cost of raising and reeling, has been estimated by good 

 judges, as not exceeding $2 a pound, it is evident 

 that the whole value of the silk must be clear gain to 

 the grower, after he has received the bounty thus liber- 

 ally offered by those States. Hence the mighty and 

 extraordinary impulse which the silk business has of 

 late received. Other States also contemplate the offer 

 of similar bounties. 



