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But notwithstanding the ease, rapidity and certainty of this opera- 

 tion, I do not think it worth much, for it does not separate the green 

 bark from the white substance that we want, neither does it seem ta 

 be easily separated in any way. I think the ley weakens the white 

 bark; if this should prove to be the general result, ley could not be 

 used for this purpose. 



Silk may be raised in New-England by every person who owns, 

 or can hire, land. The experiments in feeding, and, indeed, in every 

 part of the business, within two or three years past, have established 

 facts enough with regard to the proper management of worms, to 

 enable any person of moderate ingenuity to become, with little atten- 

 tion, a successful silk grower. 



If cloth tents or sheds prove to be sufficient protection for wormSy 

 and Mr, Gill's /ceding cradle is what he thinks it is, the silk business 

 must speedily become as extensive as any business in the United 

 States. 



Leonard and Hepsy Fargo, Pittsford, Vt. — I will state a few 

 facts respecting the silk business, from our own experience. We 

 were the first that brought the silk-worms and mulberry trees into 

 this section of the country. My native place is Connecticut, and my 

 employment when young was to make silk. My father moved tO' 

 Vermont, where there was not a mulberry tree or a silk-worm scarcely 

 ever seen. I brought some silk with me of my own manufacturing, 

 which the people rather disputed that I made by worms. I still had 

 the same anxiety to feed silk-worms. I was confident I could make 

 silk in Vermont as well as in Connecticut, if I could get the leaves. 

 Accordingly I sent to Boston and obtained two ounces of white 

 mulberry seed, and sent to Connecticut and obtained one hundred 

 eggs, of which I saved only forty. The second year I fed five 

 hundred, the third year nine thousand, the fourth year thirty thousand, 

 and had leaves enough to feed as many more, but not house room. 

 We have to manage differently here from what they do at the south. 

 Our springs are backward — it makes our second crop late. I am 

 now reeling. This is the fifth day. I have reeled fifty runs. I 

 have twenty thousand more to reel this week. I will send you a 

 specimen of my silk, and should be highly gratified to attend the 

 convention, but the distance and multiplicity of business forbids. 



We believe the silk business to be good, and that it will prosper. 



Madame Baldwin, Jfew-Haven^ Conn. — [I am somewhat at a loss 

 whether I am at liberty to give the following extract from a letter 

 received from Dr. Stebbins a day or two after he returned from the 

 convention. But on the whole I risk it. The exhibition which I 

 made of the silk journal of Dr. Styles at the convention, the interest 

 which this old monument of his industry and philanthropy awakened, 



