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The English have become satisfied of the cause of this difference, 

 and are already introducing the Piedmontese reel into India. 



The silk business has one great recommendation to us as Ameri- 

 cans. It requires personal superintendence and care. It is well 

 adapted to give employment to that portion of our population, which 

 from the improvements in machinery, have been thrown out of em- 

 ployment. The silk reel will now supply the place of the spinning 

 wheel, and give pleasing employment and support to a deserving 

 part of the community. 



The committee are not averse to the introduction of machinery, 

 for they are aware that with all the improvements which can be 

 made, there will be still enough to employ all our manual labor, 

 which has not other useful and profitable occupation. They wish, 

 however, to encourage such as are really valuable, and discourage 

 such as are not calculated to benefit the silk grower and the country. 



With these views the committee do not think the reels exhibited. 

 No. 206 and No. 1285, are entitled to a premium, as not adapted to 

 the advancement of silk manufacture, or calculated for the use of silk 

 producers; as, the sewing silk produced on them will not sell for any 

 more, or as much when brought to market, as if simply well reeled; 

 and the same mannual labor applied separately to each branch of the 

 business here attempted to be combined, will produce an article of 

 superior quality. 



The producing cocoons and reeling silk is properly the business of 

 the farmer. The throwing, spinning, weaving, &c. the business of 

 the manufacturer, and they cannot be advantageously combined any 

 more than the growing and spinning of cotton. There is enough for 

 both to do, and both will derive larger profils for their respective em- 

 ployments, than they can possibly realize from uniting them together. 

 The silk doubler and winder. No. 692, appears to be well adapted to 

 the purposes intended, and the committee think is deserving the at- 

 tention of the Institute, although the exhibitor does not claim the 

 merit as inventor, but as having made an improvement on the most 

 approved machinery now in use in England, and as the first to intro- 

 duce the same in this country. 



S. M. McKAY, 



Judges. 

 October, 1842. 



W. A. WOODWARD, 



