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us with the best fabrics at the price we now pay for the cast-ofF 

 foreign stuffs. 



9. Is raising sheep in Ohio, hemp in Kentucky or Missouri, or cotton 

 in Mississippi, feasible '!■ If so, the raising of silk in the greater part of 

 the United States is equally so. Disseminate correct information, 

 establish filatures to reel the silk, and protect us from foreign assassina- 

 tion by a judicious tariff, and it will in a few years be the leading sta- 

 ple of American production and manufacture, and supply us the means 

 honorably to pay the immense foreign debt we liow owe (principally for 

 silks) without repudiating it. 



My factory is in full and successful operation, producing more goods 

 that at any time previous. Our operations, as per factory books and 

 account stock, taken August 8th, for the past 16 months, is as follows, 

 in a condensed form, viz.: 



Cash value of factory buildings, $1 , 340 



" " Machinery, engine and permanent fixtures, 4,0fi0 



1,067 bushels cocoons purchased, 3 . COO 



280 lbs. reeled silk, do., 1/100 



Contingent expenses, &c., 604 



Wages paid factory hands, &c., 3 , 1 52 



Dyeing, dyes, (fee, 607 



Wages paid weavers, 1,610 



8,000 bushels coal, at 5 cents, 400 



$16,773 



In buildings, $1 , 340 



In machinery, (fee, 4, 060 



Manufactured 3,731 yards velvets, vestings, dress and 



other silks, (fee, 6 , 324 



1 ,006 cravats and handkerchiefs, 1 , 396 



850 pairs gloves and stockings, 875 



70 pairs shirts and drawers, 325 



1 lbs. sewings, 1 00 



Contingent credits, 1 , 000 



Cocoons reeled and other prepared silk, warps in looms, 



and other stock, coal, (fee, per invoice, 3, 180 



$18,600 



Since August 8th we have purchased over 500 bushels cocoons. 

 With what Ave have gathered and now have winding, my crop will 

 exceed 100 bushels. 



My first hatchings finished winding 1st July. The last will finish 

 by 1st Oct.. being 10 or 12 successive lots between those periods. 



I have been successful beyond my most sanguine expectations, in 

 feeding in the shed and ventilating cradles. Have gathered four crops 

 from each, averaging 7 bushels per cradle, or near two bushels at each 

 gathering per cradle. The two first and the last crops were very 

 healthy and made superior cocoons, of large salmon and peanut varie- 

 ties. The 3d lot was stinted for food, owing to the long drought this 



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