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SILK MANUAL, AND 



Silk Culturist for August hascoine to hand wliich 

 contains the following. 



SILK CCLTORE. 



We have seen, notices that Mr Du Bouchet, late 

 from France, had commenced the business of 

 raising the Silk Worm in the western part of the 

 city ; but did not suppose the establishment to be 

 one of much importance until we attended the 

 exhibition of the winding up of the cocoons, 

 held a few days since. He has a large two story 

 wooden building erected for the jun-pose, where 

 he has fed worms and raised about two millions 

 of cocoons this season, and attached to the build- 

 ing has a very large nursery, of the mulberry, by 

 means of which he intends to prosecute the busi- 

 ness more eetensively. 



We understand from Mr D'B. that he has the 

 most improved and best machinery for reeling the 

 silk, &c. He says the soil in this neighborhood 

 is highly advantageous for raising the mulberry, 

 and that there is no better location for carrying 

 on the business extensively and profitably. He 

 wishes some of our enterprising citizens to form 

 a company for the purchase of lands and the 

 erection of suitable buildings and convenience for 

 carrying on the business in the best and most pro- 

 fitable manner ; the company he would have so 

 formed as to secure the interest of the stockhold- 

 ers in the property, and the avails of the business. 

 He thinks he can convince any individual that it 

 ■would be a very profitable investment of funds. 

 We hope our citizens will not hesitate to afford 

 pecuniary encouragement to an enterprise which 

 promises to add wealth and importance to the 

 town.] 



Several hands find constant emj}loy in gather- 

 ing the leaves, and feeding the worms, all under 

 the direction of M. Cha's Du Bouchet, a gentle- ' 

 man from France, well skilled in all the mani- 

 pulations pertaining to Silk Culture, and the manu- 

 facture of Silk. The arrangements do credit to 

 him. He has been eminently successful in bring- 

 ing forward his worms,such a vast number of 

 them, so early against all the disadvantage of a 

 backward, and very unpropitious season. 



Mrs W. has on her farm about 15,000 white 

 Mulberry trees, and on her grounds adjacent, to 

 the mansion house about 5000, with several thou- 

 sand of the Chinese or Morus Multicaulis trees. 



With a great many others Mrs W. has suffered 

 from the gross impositions practised in Canton, in 

 the shipment of seeds to this country, purporting 

 to be what they are not, — « true and genuine 

 Morus Multicaulis Seed." It is too bad that our 

 enterprising citizens are to be thus fooled with. 

 It is of immense injury in the loss of ground, 

 loss of time, disappointment, and loss of money, 

 which, at from seventyfive to four hundred and 



fifly dollars a pound for the seed, is not a small 

 amount. 



Cannot some measures be adopted whereby a 

 recurrence of this cheat may be avoided ? 



Mrs W. informed us that she will have seed this 

 year, from true stock, and which can be depended 

 upon. This is a gratifying fact. When the trees 

 begin to produce seed in this country, we may 

 with certainty calculate upon having enough to 

 supply a moderate demand m a very short time, 

 and not be subject to the dishonest tricks before 

 alluded to. 



There are many others, whose names are not 

 at hand, who have with a commendable spirit of 

 liberality, contributed to introduce the business, 

 and excite an interest in it. Enough has been 

 shown, however, to satisfy any one that in a few 

 short years, the silk business in all its various 

 branches will be second to none in the Union. 



(For the Silk Manual.) 

 MUL.BEHRY TREES IN MAINE. 



P. M. Whitcomb, of Saco, is the only gentle- 

 man, we have any knowledge of, that has cultiva- 

 ted the Mulberry to any extent in that State. 

 There is no doubt but that the climate of Maine 

 is equahy adajjted to the Culture of Silk, as any 

 in New England, and we want to see the farmers 

 there, embark in the business, experimentally at 

 least, — believing that they will find their profit 

 in it. W"e understand that Mr Whitcomb will 

 have for disposal this year 60 or 70,000 seedling 

 trees of the White Mulberry. 



Should some gentlemen form themselves into 

 a Silk Company, and purchase those trees, they 

 would form a good business for themselves, and 

 lay the foundation for the establishment of Silk 

 Culture in that quarter. 



The Messrs Cheney, of Manchester, two 

 enterprising gentlemen, who are devoting their 

 whole time to the culture of the Mulberry and of 

 Silk, and whose eminent success in cultivating the 

 Morus Midticaulis trees this season was spoken of 

 in a late number of the Silk Culturist, — have 

 left at our office a simple and useful contrivance 

 for the worms to wind their cocoons upon. They 

 do not pretend that it is anything new, or originaii 

 but merely exhibit it for the advantage of those 

 who are raising Silk worms, and have no definite 

 idea of the most improved plan for their winding. 

 We think this method is preferable to any that we 

 have ever seen. 



A Professor at Prague has discovered that po- 

 tatoes make good beer, as clear and as strong as 

 wise. 



