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this worm will produce twice as much silk as any other kind I have 

 ever used. 



Answers to the Circular: 



1. Four years. Not successful until I got the right kind of worms. 

 First year 30 lbs. cocoons. Second year 90 lbs. Third year 130 

 lbs. Fourth year 311 lbs. 



2. Building two stories, 15 by 20 feet. I warm it by furnaces, 

 &C.J while the worms are winding. 



3. No. 



4. Singapore, or Nankin peanut — large size. 



5. Morus multicaulis. No other is worth the trouble, in compa- 

 rison. 



6. Succeeded best by early feeding, until I got the Singapore. 

 Since then, I have done well in late feeding. 



7. Yes. Loss by neglect in feeding, cleaning, &c. 



8. No. 



9. No. 



10. We make all into sewings: sell it for four cents a skein. It is 

 preferred by many to Italian. 



Question. — What do you think of the silk culture for the United 

 States'? 



Answer. — I think that, as a national business, there is none more 

 profitable. 



P. S. To hatch the eggs I take the rolls of paper containing them 

 to bed with me, ten to fourteen times and it does the thing. 



Horace Janes, Cornwall^ Vt. — In compliance with your request, 

 I send you as full a report as I am able, of our operations in the silk 

 business. It is about ten years since we commenced feeding worms. 

 The most we have fed in any one year is about thirty thousand j the 

 present year about twelve thousand. The results, since the first year 

 or two, have been uniformly successful. 



We use a wood-house chamber, which is so open that we cannot 

 do much to regulate the temperature, and have attempted nothing 

 more than to close the windows in cold damp weather; think that is 

 all that is necessary. 



I prefer a kind of worm we have fed some two or three years which 

 were brought from Springfield, in this State, without any distinctive 

 name. They are superior to those that have been sold in this vicini- 

 ty. They are a large grey worm, making a sulphur colored cocoon. 

 Their age I have not noticed particularly, but think the winding 

 mostly completed in six weeks. 



I use the Italian white. They were set out in rows six feet apart, 

 and three feet apart in the rows, and cultivated as long as they would 

 admit of it. Since I stopped cultivating they have gradually declin- 

 edj and I have been thinning them out with a view to commence cul- 

 tivating them again. 



I have a few of the Alpine which I like well. 



