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[From the Delaware State Journal.] 

 SILK. 

 The silk business is becominaf an object of earn- 

 est attention in this country. We question wheth- 

 er any portion of it, is better adapted to the busi- 

 ness than our own State. We mean that part of 

 the business which relates to the j roduction of 

 the raw material — the cultivation of the mulberry 

 tree and the raising of cocoons. The soil and 

 temperature of Kent and Sussex counties are be- 

 lieved to be admirably adapted to it. It is a busi- 

 ness which requires scarcely any capital but the 

 soil itself. The raising; of cocoons is but a simple 

 process, which any housewife, nay, young boys 

 and girls who do nothing else, may easily manage. 

 The spinning and reeling would be an agreeable 

 employment for the elder girls. Mulberry trees 

 can be easily obtained, and when two or three 

 years old, furnish abundant food for worms. The 

 employment combines the rt'comn)endations of 

 being healthful, agreeable and lucrative. The silk 

 manufacture will undoubtedly becotne a great 

 business in our country, and our farniers' wives 

 and daughters will, in a short time, find as ready 

 a sale for their cocoons, as the farmer does for his 

 wheat and corn. A farmer, with competent 

 means, who would introduce the mulberry tree 

 in Kent or Sussex county, and, by his example 

 and influence, induce others to engage in the busi- 

 ness, would be a benefactor to his neighborhood. 

 He might be the instrument of superinducing a 

 most lucrative and valuable employment, which 

 would interfere with no other occuy);ttion, and the 

 profits of which would be clear gain to the State. 

 It would interfere with no other businesf, because 

 the trees, when once planted, require little further 

 attention, and need occupy no ground which 

 would be otherwise ajipropriated ; and because 

 also, the plucking of the leaves and feeding of the 

 cocoons could be all performed by young boys 

 and girls, who have nothing else to do. In a 

 moral and intellectual point of view, if the busi- 

 ness should become general, it would be of inesti- 

 mable advantage to the rising generation, by teach- 

 ing them habits of indust;-y at ihat early ])crio(l of 

 life, which, in the country, is too often wasted in 

 listlessuess and ignorance ; and that too by fur- 

 nishing them an agreeable, healthful and useful 

 employment, suited to their capacity and years, 

 under their parents' eye, and enjoying the com- 

 fort and shelter of the parental roof. In short, 

 we know of no experiment, if that may be deemed 

 an experiment which has been a source of wealth 

 wherever it has been undertaken — which more 

 strongly recommends itself to our farmers in Kent 

 and Sussex than this : — we speak of them partic- 

 ularly, because, having all the natural advantages 

 of soil and temperature — and without manufac- 

 tures or foreign commei'ce — it woxild admirably 



amalgamate with, and agreeably and profitably di- 

 versify the monotonous routine and uncertain pro- 

 fits of corn and wheat crops. Let some farmer 

 begin the planting of nuilherry trees — plant them 

 about his house, or along his fence, or make hedges 

 of tliem. They take up no ground which is 

 wanted, and they are growing while he is sleep- 

 ing. Let him give shoots to his netghhois, until 

 the tree becomes as universal as any of our forest 

 trees. Let I.im follow it up by raising the cocoon 

 and preparing the si k until it becomes, as it may 

 easily become, a general and lucrative biisint'ss. 

 Such a man would earn a monument more endur- 

 ing than brass or marble. 



VALUABLE IVEW "WORK ON SILK. 



America!) Silk Grower's Huicle, is iliis day piiblislied at the 

 office of the Now England Fawner — heiiis; the art of growinf;; 

 the Mulberry and maimfacture ot Silk on the ■system of sic- 

 cessive cr< ps each season — by V^'m. K knrick, anihor of the 

 New American Orchardist; il'2 pp. price ^12 cents, neatly 

 bound in clolh. 15ooksellersand traders supplied on favorable 

 terms. GKO. C. iURRECT. 



MORUS MULTICAULIS. 



For sale at the As^ricnlturaj Warehouse, 51 and 52 North 

 Market street, any numlH^r of Trees of the iMorus I\!ullicaidis 

 or Chinese Mulberry. These trees were propajjaled in tliis 

 country The superiority of the foliage of this tree as food 

 for ilie silk-worm over all othoi, has repeatedly been tested, 

 and is prov d beyond a doubt The price for Trees, from 4 

 to 5 feet high is ^30 per hundred, 54,50 per dozen, ^'. 50c 

 single. Trees but 2 or 3, with good roots ^"25 per hundred. 

 GEOIIGE C HAUIIFTT, 



BREMEN GEESE. 



For sale at the Agricultural Wareho:;se Bremen Gfese and 

 Muscovy Ducks. GEO. C. HARK F/rr. 



GARDEN SEEDS, TREES, <&u. 



The suKscriber is dai y receiving a supply of Garden Seeds. 

 growth of 18.15, and will execute orders from the South at 

 short notice, for SEEDS of the greatest variety, raised in ear- 

 dens connected with the Agricultural Warehouse and New 

 England Seed Stnre. Boston, and warranted of good qualit3-. 



POXES OF GARDEN SEEDS containing an assortment 

 neatly papered up in 6\ cent papers supplied at a discount to 

 Traders, also FRUI i AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, 

 MULBERRY AND MORUS MULT1CAULI8 TREES. 



Agricultural and Horticultural Books, New England Far- 

 mer (weekly a f 2, '>fl p>--r annum), Silk Manual (monthly' at 

 50 cts. per annum). Horticultural Register at %2 per annuiii. 

 published by GEO. C. BARRETT, 



LUSTRE FLOWER POTS. 



For sale at the New England Fanner Office, beautiful Snpcr 

 Superb Flower Pots. 



3IORUS MULTICAULIS. 



JOSEPH DAVENPORT, of Colerain, Mass. otTers for 

 sale 16,000 trees of the Morns Multicaulis, or Chinese Mul- 

 berry, being a part of his trees cultivated at Colerain and at 

 Suffield, Ct., 16 mles north of Hartford, or.e mile from the 

 river. The trees are from 2 to 5 feet high. Price accorthng 

 to size, from 25 to 60 dollars per hundred. Were propagated 

 from trees (hat endured the Inst severe winter unprotected. 

 Purchasers will be furnished with a knowledge of its culture 

 and suitable soil, which, if attended to will ensure it without 

 protection against the severity of our climate. Trees will be 

 carefully packed and forwarded by land or water to any part 

 of the country. Orders receive<l by mail will receive prompt 

 attention, Colerain, Oc. 5, 1335 



