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tation was made against the eleven large 

 breweries in London. A duty is also levied 

 on malt, which a few years since was ten 

 shillings and sixpence per quarter, of eight 

 bushels. The enclosed official statement, I 

 cut from a London newspaper. Let the 

 American farmer read and reflect on it. 



James Mease. 

 Philadelphia, December 19th, 1844. 



An account of the duty on hops of the 

 growth of the year 1843, distinguishing the 

 districts, and the old from the new duty: 



Districts. 



Barnstaple - 



Cambridge - 



Canterbury - 



Cornwall 



Derby - 



Dorset 



Essex - 



Gloucester - 



Grantham 



Hants 



Hereford 



Hertford 



Isle of Wight 



Lincoln 



Lynn 



Norwich 



Oxford 



Reading 



Rochester 



Salisbury 



Salop 



Stourbridge - 



Suffolk 



Surrey 



Sussex 



Wales, Middle 



Wellington - 



Worcester - 



Duty. 



■ 118 



1,287 



1 lli 



243,656 14 5^ 



Old duty, at 1 12-20d lb. 

 New duty, at a 8-20d lb. 

 Additional duty of 5 per ct. 

 per 3d Victoria, c. 17 



Total, 



133,431 



98,623 



11 



6 



11,601 16 113 



243,6.56 14 5§ 



G. A. CoTTRELL, Accountant- Genl. 

 Excise-office, London. Nov. 14th, 1843. 



Heavy Yield of Wheat. — James M. 

 Underwood, of the town of Middlesex, in 

 this county, cut 52 bushels and 56 pounds 

 of wheat upon one acre of ground, .^elected 

 from about 30, which he thinks will yield 

 nearly the same amount. — Pen. Yan. Demo. 



Silk. 



There has been a large increase in the 

 manufacture of silk in New England, within 

 the last one or twoycars. Several new es- 

 tablishments have been started in that time, 

 and old ones, that were prostrated by the 

 mulberry speculation of 1839, have been re- 

 suscitated, and are now going on prosper- 

 ously. These establishments are employed 

 chiefly in making sewings and twist, and 

 severally consume from 20 to 200 pounds 

 raw silk weekly; amounting, in the aggre- 

 gate, I should think, to twice or three times 

 the quantity worked up one year ago. We 

 found one new establishment just going into 

 operation, at Mansfield, Conn., forlhe man- 

 ufacture of cords, gimps, and other trim- 

 mings. The building is over 100 feet long, 

 three stories high, and designed for a large 

 business. Messrs. Dale and Denmead, are 

 owners. All our New England factories 

 purchase all the American raw silk they 

 can get properly reeled, and pay higher for 

 it than for the foreign article, and yet their 

 chief dependence is upon foreign stock. 



There are three silk factories now in reg- 

 ular operation at Northampton, and one at 

 Dedham, Mass. Something is also done in 

 this way at Woburn, Hingham and Foxbo- 

 rough. 



In Mansfield, Conn., there are five or six 

 establishments of tlie kind, though we could 

 not visit all of them. In Manchester, Conn., 

 the Messrs. Cheneys have, within a few 

 months, revived their establishment, and 

 arc now making 200 pounds of sewings 

 weekly. There is also a factory at Wind- 

 sor, and another at Pogonock, near Hartford, 

 Connecticut. 



West of the mountains, the business is 

 carried on very difl'erently from what it is 

 in N^ew England. No foreign raw silk is 

 used in any establishment. No sewing silk 

 or twist of any consequence is made. The 

 entire attention of manufacturers in that 

 quarter is turned to plain and figured dress 

 goods, serges, satins, velvets, ribbons, &c. 

 I brought home with me some 70 different 

 samples of such goods, from the richest 

 figured velvet, down to the simple pongee — 

 samples that will well bear comparison with 

 the same kinds of goods made in England or 

 France. The two leading establishments 

 are Mr. Rapp's, at Economy, Pa., and Mr. 

 Gill's, Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, 

 Ohio, both of which were 2ot up under the 

 superintendence of John Fo.y, senior, and 

 Sons, practical manufacturers from Eng- 

 land, and have gone steadily forward, en- 

 larging their operation from time to time, 

 and finding a profitable and ready sale for 



