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Devoted to the Culture of Silk, AgricuUure, and Rural Economy. 



VOL, II. 



BOSTON, JULY, 1836. 



NO 3. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY 



GEORGE C. BARRETT, 



51 ^ 52 Morlh Market St., at the A*. E. Farmer Office. 



T. G. FESSENDEN, Editok. 



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BOSTON, JULY , 183C . 



(For Fessenden's Silk Manual ) 



T. G. Fessenden. 



Respected Friend — In a late communication 

 from the State of Oliio, there was forwarded to 

 me the inclosed certificate, which I wish to have 

 inserted in your Silk Manual, together with this 

 notice that I received a double premium of one 

 dollar a pound from the State of Massachusetts 

 for reeling and throwing silk from the cocoons by 

 one operation. J now make machines with reels 

 fitted to them, so that if silk is wanted to be reeled 

 only, without twisting, for use or sale, it may be 

 done to advantage, or spun into warp or filling for 

 weaving, sewing silk or twist, as may be wished 

 for, immediately from the cocoons, with great 

 despatch. Also make machines calculated to be 

 usprl tj- water ur oteaiu power, with any number 

 of spindles requested; and also machines for spin- 

 ning sticks of twist. Any patronage will be 

 gratefully received. With respect, 



Adam Brooks. 



Please direct to Adam Brooks, South Scituate, 

 Mass. 



The certificate referred to above, is as follows: 



Mr Thomas White. 



Dear Sir — Having been informed that you 

 are about to obtain an interest in Brooks' Silk 

 Reeling and Spinning Machine, I think it due to 

 you and the community at large, to state that, al- 

 though I came to this country with my mind 

 somewhat prejudiced in favor of European ma- 



chinery, yet, since I have seen the operation of 

 Brooks' machine, and wove your silk last winter, 

 which was prejjared for the loom on that machine, 

 I am cotnpelled to give it tlie preference over all 

 others that I have ever seen, either in tiiis country 

 or in Europe. I wish you to encourage it in pre- 

 ference to any other, for I presume you will not 

 be able to get a better. Silk prepared on that ma- 

 chine is worth at least one dollar per pound more 

 than th t prepared on" any other kind of machinery 

 that I have ever seen. At a single operation the 

 thiowing and tramming is performed, thus saving 

 a considerable amount of time and expense. 



I have been engaged in the silk business for 17 

 years, and have had an opportunity of seeing most 

 if not all the machinery used in this country and 

 in JEurope, and think the Reel, &c., of Mr Brooks 

 of Massachusetts, decidedly preferable to all others. 

 Yours, respectfully, 



Robert Fox. 



Steuhenville, Ohio, May 13, 1S36. 



From the Silk Culturist. 

 MORUS MUr^TICAULtlS IN EAST PliORIDA. 



In the last Silk Culturist there is an article under 

 this heading, giving some account of the Morus 

 multicaulis in the garden of the Rev. Mr Thomas, 

 as seen about the middle of Debember last. A 

 correct account of the accidental exiieriment by 

 Mr Thomas, may be useful, perhaps, to the grow- 

 ers of the rilorus multicaulis, and as it stands in 

 the article of E. H., alluded to, it may mislead 

 them. I take the liberty to send you a true his- 

 tory of the matter. 



In November of '33, I arrived in St Augustine 

 with fifty small plants of the Morus multicaulis, 

 obtained from Mrs Parmentier. They were the 

 first ever brought to Florida. Little attention was 

 bestowed on them. They wore planted in a 

 crowded nursery, and allowed to vegetate as they 

 could till the spring of '35, when some of them 

 were laid and some cuttings taken from them. A 

 few which had room to expand are now fruit 

 bearing trees, of some ten inches in circumfer- 

 ence. It was late in the spring, or perhaps June, 



