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7th. Bad success in feeding, may result from bad eggs, often made 

 such by bad management, in or out of the ice-house, or proving 

 such, by late feeding ; but more frequently bad success results from 

 careless, inattentive feeding, and want of air. 



We have this year fed from early morn to evening, as often as the 

 worms would eat, the same as we should do in fatting a lot of pigs. 



Some of the eggs we had were kept in a chest in an upper room 

 until the time of hatching, and they did well. We th.nk that if the 

 eggs should be left in a shady and cool part of the cocoonery, or out- 

 building, it would be much better than the ice-house. 



Having so good luck with our first crop, and wishing to make as 

 much as possible by the undertaking, Vfe were supplied with eggs 

 kept back from hatchmg, and the whole of 10 or 12 ounces of eggs 

 proved a failure. 



8th. We have no knowledge of the making of paper from mulberry 

 leaves, but we hear there is a lot at the paper-mill for that purpose. 



9th. We have no knowledge of the bark of the mulberry being 

 used for silk stuffs — unless the old ^ar/csiZ/c handkerchiefs, so called, 

 are made of the bark. 



10th. From the experience of the past and the present year, we 

 can recommend the feeding of only one crop, and that an early crop^ 

 Should an early frost, as is sometimes the case, cutoff the first early 

 leaves, the worms may be sustained one or two weeks by the use of 

 early lettuce, currant or black- walnut leaves, or in another and better 

 form as suggested by Dr. S. It is to prepare and dry some foliage 

 this season, which we propose to do ourselves. This can be pulve- 

 rized and moistened, and a little flour mixed with it, and the worms 

 will eat it, as the Doctor informs us- 



James C. Church, Poughkeepsie^ Dutchess Co., JV. F. — In 184 1, 

 I fed about 150 worms in my house garret, of the peanut and sul- 

 phur kinds. With the exception of a very few, they all wound up, 

 and produced good cocoons. The following winter I built a cocoon- 

 ery, 33 feet by 20 feet, two and a half stories high, ventilated by slid- 

 ing windows ; I have used no artificial heat. 



The next spring I planted one acre of branches of the multicaulis, 

 by laying them in drills eight feet apart. They came up very regu- 

 larly, and grew finely, 



I that season raised 49 lbs. cocoons, producing 4 lbs. 10 oz. silk, 

 including the pierced cocoons that were spun into coarse silk. 



I have never fed in open sheds. I prefer the peanut kinds. I 

 use chiefly the multicaulis. To ascertain which would produce the 

 most foliage, I cut some to the ground ; others I gathered the leaves. 

 I give the latter the preference. I have fed early and late. I have 

 been the most successful in early feeding. I have seen how some 

 others have managed in feeding, and found they had too much 

 litter under the worms, causing heat ; and disease follow^s, notwith- 

 standing lime was plentifully used. I have never tested the use of 

 the mulberry for paper. 



