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FARMERS' REGISTER 



[No. 11 



Rent of nursery, - 



Rent of field, 20 acres, at 82 per acre, 



Transplanting 1200 trees, preparing 



ground, &e. -<-.-.- 

 Attendance of worms and reeling, 50 



pounds silk, - 



85 

 40 



12 



100 



8157 

 8250 



893 



50 pounds of silk, at ^5 per pound, - 



Net gain fourth year, 



Fifth Fear. 



The fifth year there will be. 7030 trees two years 

 old, and of course, ready lor transplanting, which, 

 with the 1200, already transplanted, making 8200, 

 will occupy a litile more than two anil a half acres. 

 These, with ihose one year old, will produce leave.* 

 enough to feed something over a million of worms, 

 from which may be calculated on 416 pounds ol 

 silk. 



Rent of nursery and field, 

 Transplanting 7000 trees, 

 Feeding and care of 1,000,000 worms, 

 Reeling 416 pounds silk, 



produce at least 60.000 pounds of leaves, which, 

 with what may be gathered from 223, COO of one 

 year old will amount to 100,000 pounds, which 

 will Ieed, at a reduced calculation 2,500,000 

 worms, which number will make 1041 pounds of 

 silk, worth 85205. 



Estimate for this year. 



Rent, - - - - - - 842 50 



Transplanting 47,000 trees, - - 235 



Feeling and care of 2,500,000 worms, 300 



Heeling 1041 pounds silk, - - 520 50 



Interest of cocoonery supposed to have 



been built last year, - 210 



842 50 



35 

 250 

 312 



81308 

 85205 



416 lbs. silk at $5 per pound 



Net proceeds fifth year, 

 Sixth Year. 



8639 50 



82080 



81441 50 



It will be perceived that as at the ralioat which 

 we proceeded thus far in propagating, there will he 

 this year untransplanted 47,000 trees of one year's 

 growth, and 317,000 set this year; in all 364,000. 

 These could not have room to stand in the original 

 acre of nursery; I shall therelbre suppose that the 

 cultivator has, this year, either enriched and pre- 

 pared a part of the twenty acres in order to enlarge 

 the nursery, or has procured a sufficient quantity 

 of suitable ground elsewhere, in which case the 

 yet unoccupied portion o r the twenty acres may 

 be considered an equivalent, and the rent therefore, 

 need not come into the account. 



The sixth year will commence by transplanting 

 the 47,000 trees two years old this spring, which 

 with those transplanted before, will make 55,200, 

 leaving space in the twenty acres for 8,800 more. 

 There will then be for this year's feeding 200 trees 

 of five year's; 1,000 of four year's, 7000 of three 

 years and 47,000 of two years old. These will 



1041 pounds silk at 85 per pound, 

 Net gain sixth year, 



Seventh Year. 



At the season of commencing this spring, the silk 

 made the year before will have been sold, and af- 

 ter paying all expenses of the season will have left 

 a net s:ain of above 83000; and as there will be 

 317,000 trees of two years old, if one-half of them 

 are sold at two cents each, (the purchaser being at 

 the expense of removing them,) which would now 

 readily command sixor eight times that price, they 

 will amount to 83,170. By these means, there 

 will be sufficient funds on hand to pay lor the 

 twenty acres of land, which at 830 per acre will 

 amount to 8000, and 83000 for a cocoonery, which 

 I shall suppose to have been built on credit the 

 year before, together with 8210 interest; still lea- 

 ving a balance of perhaps over 82000. I shall 

 also suppose that in the course of the fifth season the 

 cultivator has made a purchase of two hundred 

 acres of land, which if the business has been well 

 conducted thus far can easily be done on a credit, 

 to pay by instalments of 81000 each, beginning 

 after two years, and which at 830 per acre, will 

 require six instalments. If this is done he will 

 now be able from the remaining avails of last sea- 

 son to pay the first instalment with the interest 

 due. 



Table exhibiting at one view, according to the 

 foregoing statement the number of trees set, the 

 total number of trees, quantity of leaves, number 

 of worms fed, number of pounds of silk and amount 

 each year for seven successive years. 





