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Debts. 



To 3 ounces of seef!, hatched for feeding, at $3 per oz.,.. $24 00 



To 105 days' labor of men and boys, averaging 75 cents,. 78 75 



To rent of cocoonery, at 10 per cent, on cost, 20 OQ 



To rent of land, at 6 per cent on valuation, 21 00 



To reeling 44 lbs. silk, at 75 cts. per lb., 32 00 



Debts, $175 75 



Credits, 



By 44 lbs. silk, at $5 per lb., $220 00 



By 40 oz. seed eggs, at $3 per oz., 120 00 



By half a bushel of cocoons, sold for seed, at $7, 3 50 



By 4 bushels of perforated cocoons, at 50 cents, 2 00 



Credits, $345 50 



Debts, 175 75 



Nett profits, at 37 i per cent, $169 75 



Referring to your Circular for the two series of questions you pro- 

 pose on the subject of the growth and manufacture of silk, I now sub- 

 join answers numbered in conformity with your questions: — 



Groioth of Silk. 



1. We have fed worms two seasons. Last year we did not produce 

 so much silk as we have this year, but the results were in about the 

 same proportion. 



2. The building has been described above. The temperature is not 

 regulated by any artificial means whatever. 



3. We made an experiment during the past season of feeding in an 

 open shed or tent. The results were not favorable, but under the ac- 

 tual circumstances we did not consider the experiment decisive against 

 that mode of feeding. 



4. We prefer the peanut variety of silk-worm to any other. • 



5. .We feed from the Alpine variety of mulberry, and we plough 

 and hbe them. 



6. ..Our experience is in favor of early feeding. 



7. We are not acquainted with any cases of failure in feeding. 



8. We have made no experiment in the manufacture of paper from 

 the mulberry leaf, either in the green or dry state. 



9. We have not attempted by water or dew-rotting to convert the 

 bark of the mulberry shoots into paper or silk fabrics. 



Manufacture of Silk. 



1. We have been engaged in manufacturing silk eighteen months. 



2. We manufacture all the varieties of sewing silk and twist. 



3. We manufacture at the rate of twelve to fifteen hundred pounds 

 weight annually. 



4. The amount of capital invested in the manufacture is about 

 $3,500. 



