Nb. 3. 



Mulberrij Trees — On Insriravcp. 



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ndopted in this place f)r teedinp, I (Jo.st;rilK'ii 

 lo you in a fbimor letter. [See FarimTs' 

 Cabinet, Vol. II., pai^c :^3I.] Our (i.Miires 

 for spinnin<T are common -sawed lath pl.iceii 

 about tliree inches apart on the underside ot' 

 the shelves, and some simple means fixed for 

 the worms to mount up on. They spin their 

 cocoons in the corners, where the lath comes 

 in contact with the shelf. 



Eiffhth. — " What bounty or bounties does 

 thele^nslature of your state offer to encourajre 

 the growth of silk :" The legislature of New 

 Jersey at its session passed a law granting 

 fifteen cents premium, per pound, on cocoons 

 the production of this slate, and to be in Ibrce 

 five years. 



Ninth. — "Is there a regular market for 

 cocoons and reeled silk i" There are regular 

 markets at fair prices for cocoons produced 

 near where manufacturing silk has now be- 

 gan. . The transportation of large bodies of 

 cocoons to a distanc(; is not practicable. The 

 maniitiiotiirers are anxious to obtain all the 

 good reeled silk our country can produce at 

 present, and for some years to come, and pay 

 a muci) higher price than for the best import- 

 ed. Those who raise silk and wishing to sell 

 it in its raw state had better reel it into skeins, 

 and it is then in a merchantable condition. 



Mr. Gamaliel Gay is the inventor of a set 

 of machinery which is now in use in this 

 place, that first spools the silk from the co- 

 coons, and is then doubled and twisted into 

 sewing silk, and is thought will answer a good 

 purpose. 



I have answered your interrogatories in a 

 manner that appears most feasible to my views 

 but I do not pretend to lay down any particu- 

 lar modes or systems as applicable to all fu- 

 ture generations. 



Respectfully yours, 



Chauncey Stone. 



Jos. S. Naudain, M. D., Middleton, Del. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet 



mulberry Trees. 



I agree entirely with your correspondent 

 T. S. P., Vol. II. p. 21, of the Cabinet, in con- 

 sidering the Maclura, or Ossage Orange, the 

 very be«t plant known to us, for the purpose 

 of forming a hedge, and regret exceedingly 

 the difficulty of procuring seed. As a sub- 

 stitute, I would recommend a near relative,! 

 which, although it bears no thorns, mav be 

 made to answer the purpose of a hedge, and 

 source of supply to a multitude of silk- 

 worms. I allude to the Italian white mulberry 

 tree. This, when the mania for growintr tlie 

 multicaulis has passed away (as it certainly 

 must in a few years,) will again be used for 

 feeding them. The seed may be sown in a 

 bed, and the trees transplanted at one year 



(lid, to where they are inlcndi.-d to retnain iti 

 the hedge row, .say i2 inches apart. Keep 

 tiiem headed down to make them bush out 

 from tlie root, then bfigiu at the right hand 

 on<l of the row, and p'lss a shoot on the inside 

 of the second, and the outside of the third 

 tree ; returning, pass a snoot from the third on 

 the outside of the second and inside of the 

 first tree, interlacing them in this manner, at 

 a distance of about six or eight inches from 

 each other, the whole length of the row. — 

 This will form a fence for the support of the 

 other sh(X)ts, which will in three or four years 

 be so firm and compact, as to confine any cat- 

 tle whatever. You will then have a good 

 hedge, from which you may at any time cut 

 with a briar hook or other implement, as ma- 

 ny twio-s with their leaves, as is required, and 

 the more you cut them the firmer they will 

 grow. MoRus. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Reply to Observer om Insurance* 



Observer gathers up rough words and usea 

 them so at random, that I think sometimes he 

 hurts people more with his manner than he 

 benefits them with his knowledge. This ha- 

 bit, with the good opinion he is so apt to 

 maintain of any new or novel notion tiiat may 

 fall in his way, makes it difficult to reason 

 with him; besides a little unpleasant. For 

 those reasons J would rather not come in 

 contact with Observer without there was 

 more room for rough and tumble than there is 

 in the short and narrow columns of the Cab- 

 inet; but his last essay upon insurance is in 

 my opinion .-o erroneous, and calculated to do 

 so much mischief with those who may believe 

 him, that I have concluded to throw together 

 a few desultory remarks upon the subject of 

 his essay. 



Observer says — "The fact is — insurance 

 is a speculation — a game of chance — a species 

 of gambling, in which the chance of the game 

 is always in favor of the insurer and against 

 the insured. Ii is a kind of lottery, wherein 

 the insured pays to the insurers not only all 

 the remunerating fund which they are to re- 

 ceive back in case of loss — but they also pay 

 the whole expense of the policy and furnish 

 the profits of the game besides. Just so of 

 lotteries, the purchasers of the tickets pay all 

 the prizes — defray the expense of the scheme, 

 and also the profit of the game besides." 



Now these are Observer's facts. "Insu- 

 rance a kind of lottery" — and v;hy ? because 

 "the insured pays to the insurers not only all 

 the remunerating fund which they are to re- 

 ceive back in case of loss, but all other ex- 

 penses of the game." Now this "fact" ap- 

 pears at first view very plausible, and is well 

 calculated to generate prejudice, and start the 

 hue and cry of fraud »nd gambling against 



