SILK MANUAL, AND 



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successful rival of Fiance, in many articles of silk 

 manufacture. Let the ingenuity of America be 

 applied to silk machinery, as it has been to the 

 machinery for making cotton and woolen goods, 

 and its success will be the same. 1 he higher 

 cost of adult labor in the United States, will thus 

 be rendered comparatively unimportant. 



The cost of a manufactory, aud the amount of 

 capital necessary to conduct it will depend much 

 upon the extent of the building, the cost of the 

 -round, and the amount of Silk proposed to be 

 manufactured. The expenses sf machinery are 

 not heavy, as Silk machinery it always light in 

 its construction, and requires no great power to 

 keep it in motion. A six horse power steam en- 

 gine will move the ma-hineryto manufacture two 

 hundred pounds of raw Silk per week ; and a 

 building of 30 feet in width, by 225 feet m length, 

 3 stories high, will be sufficient for all the purpo- 

 ses of manufacturing, dyeing and packing that 

 quantity of Silk within its walls. It is proper 

 also to observe that the expense of machinery, 

 will depend much on the kind of work to be done. 

 Many articles manufactured from Silk, require 

 machinery of but little cost ; and the estimate is 

 made with confidence, that an establishment foi 

 the manufacture of Silk into plain and ordinary 

 articles, will cost no more than about one eighth 

 of a cotton foctory, to turn out the same number 

 of dollars worth of work ; and with equal if not 



greater profit. 



(To be ci>ntinue<i.) 



Chinkse Mulberrv Trees.- We fiae in one 

 pa-re of the Silk Culturist, the following quanti- 

 lies of this tree advertised, as also about 2 .Mil- 

 lions of plants of the White Italian Mulberry.- 

 Truly we are a propagating people. 



75,000 by W. G. Comstock, Hartford. 



50 000 flo. flo. 



100,000 by W. Prince & Son, Flushing. 



75^000 by W, Kenrick, near Boston. 



20,000 by A. Row, near Rochester. 



320,000 

 and a great ir.any thousand more by »• Stebbms 

 of Northampton, Mass. C. B. Mellory, Westfield, 

 Thomas J. Bestor, Suffield, and Joseph Daven- 

 port of Colerain. Now allowing each plant to 

 occupv a space of three feet by one, which is the 

 S nursery distance, 320,000 MulticauUs trees 

 would fill, in nursery order, about 40 acres, which 

 would average to the five proprietors, eight acres 

 each ; and if planted in orchards, at 15 feet apart, 

 would fill 1660 acres. The 2,100,000 white kal- 

 ian would plant, at the same distance, something 

 more than 10,0L>0 acres. We seem in a fair way 

 ^,. Kavn jit least mulberry trees. 



Something New.— A new, and, it would ap- 

 pear, a most eflectual safeguard againsi fire hni 

 been disc.vered by a gentleman of Was ungton. 

 It is a composition of the appearance and consis- 

 tence of paint, which when api lied to ^^ood ren- 

 ders it secure from damage or destruction by tire. 

 A public exi.erimentcfits utility was made last 

 week in Washington, in the presence oi the May- 

 or, General Gratiot, Colonel Edwards. ISir Cun- 

 ningham, and several other gentlemen, the surpris- 

 ing results of which are thus noticed in the George- 

 town Metropolitan : j r i ., 

 Two small houses had been constructed of cliy 

 pine boards, the one open to permit a free pas- 

 sa<^e for the flames and air, and the other close 

 built and secure. Thirty barrels of pine shavings 

 were then placed ai-ound and in contact w,th both 

 the buildings, and six barrels of the same inflam- 

 mable matter were piled up on the tioor of the 

 open house in contact also with the sides of the 

 UUerior. When the match was appbe. 1 the flames 

 rose to a considerable height above boUi struc- 

 ures, with much fierceness ; but on the decay of 

 he fire it was found that the house was not ev n 

 s orched, except in one or two places, where the 

 pahU had not been well applied. The close built 

 house, which had been properly prepared, escap- 

 ed emirely. The fire continued for nearly an hour 

 !n a manner that would certainly have reduced to 

 Iheap" ashes any pine, oak, or other wooden 

 buildin- covered with ordinary pamt. 



Colonel PaimbcBuf declares that this composi- 

 tion will not cost more than common paint, that 

 ma be made as fine and beautiful, an.l various 

 rcSor,and that it possesses far greater dura- 



^''Tiie <^entlemen above mentioned, and others 



who witnessed the experiment, have issued a cer- 

 Ificate expressive of their sati. faction, and strong 



;; ;icornmendiog the paint to the attention of 

 Government.— J3aZ<. Amer. 



A Patriotic FAMiLY-Capt. Simeon Cole, now 

 ivin- in Bradford, and five brothers, being six sons 

 of the late Samuel Cole of that town, performed 

 twentysev-e« years and eight months service in the 

 revolutionary war! We doubt whether the same 

 is true of any other family in the United States 

 This little town furnished a very large portion of 



- soldiers in the revolutionary army ; and no less than 

 eight of her sons were slain on Bunker Hill.-iia- 

 verhill Gaz. 



Speed of the Doe.-There is a dog belonging 

 to the conductor of the train on the Dedhan, branch 

 road, which accompanies the train to and from the 

 city every trip, and always keeps a rod or two in 

 advance of the engine. His speed has been once 

 or twice tried, and be has beat the loco.uonve., 



