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SILK MANUAL, AND 



not balance the expenses, and willingly charged 

 a part of the cause of their failure to the uncon- 

 geniality of the clinmte. But the experience of 

 foreif^ners who have been eni>[age(l in the busi- 

 ness, tells us that no climate in the world is bet- 

 ter adapted than ours for prosecuting the silk cul- 

 ture ; and among these evidences we need not 

 look for higher authority for the truth of such as- 

 sertions than Mons. Tinelli, who, having had 30 

 years' (jxperience as proprietor and superinten- 

 dent of a Filature of Silk in Lonihardy, and an 

 official station in the University of Pavia, has had 

 every opportunity to know, both by theory and 

 practice, every thing connected vvith the subject, 

 is eminently fitted to judge correctly. In the work 

 in quiistion, he has shown conclusively that cold 

 climates (which objection has been raised against 

 the northern states of our Ifnion,) are not only 

 congenial to the growth of tfn; Morus multicaii- 

 lis, but are far Ijetter for the re.':rii)gof worms and 

 other important matters '.-onnocted with the busi- 

 ness, than the torrid regions of the South. The 

 northern and western states lie within the tem- 

 perate zone, and consequently tiiey are best adap- 

 ted for the jnirposo. 



That the business may be made profitab'e not 

 only to individuals but to the nation, if properly 

 prosecuted, cannot be donbtfd. Mons. Tinelli 

 makes the following interesting statement, wliich 

 we have taken the liberty to extract. In another 

 place, he exhibits a table, shoAving than in 1832 3 

 and '4, the average exportatioti of silk from the 

 single Lombardy-Venetian kingdom, was 5,334,- 

 202 pounds yearly, which, caU-idated at g^S per 

 pound, makes the sum of $16,002,606 ! But to 

 the extract : 



"In order to be within bounds, I will take tlie 

 case of a farmer who owns meieiy a small house 

 sufiicient for the residence of his family, and about 

 ten acres of land. Without the least sacriricc or 

 dimunition of the productiveness of his little farm, 

 if he would merely surround it v.ith a hedge-row 

 of Mulberries, planted with judginent and accor- 

 ding to the best methods, it is certain that it would 

 cost him to do so only a few days of labor and a 

 few dollars of expenditure for the purchase of the 

 trees, but the beauty and the vnlue of his farm 

 would be immensely improved. At the end of tiie 

 third year, tlie trees will have arrived at such a 

 growth as to furnish leaves in considerable abun- 

 dance. Supposing that they ])rodnce leavf-s enough 

 only to feed the silk worms from two ounces of 

 eggs,yetsuch a number if carefullynurtured would 

 yield, at a moderate estimate, one hundred at d 

 aeveiityfive j)ounds of cocoons, which at twenty 

 cents a lb. would give a profit of $63 6-lOOths. — 

 The care of so small a number of wor^NS would 

 not be a groat burthen to the farmer. One wo- 

 man, with tlie assistance of a boy, for the labor of 

 gathering the leaves during five weeks, would 



suflice. Nor would it be requisite to enlarge the 

 house for tlie accommodation of the worms. The 

 kitchen or the sleeping room, if well ventilated, 

 would be sufficient to contain the worms from 

 two ounces of eggs, without inconvenience. The 

 fixttn-es necessary for the accommodation of the 

 worms would be so trifling that their cost can 

 scarcely be calculated, especially as the expense 

 would be incurred only in the first year. F'rom 

 this little calculation made on an experiment S3 

 limited, it is estimated how greatly ])rofitable it 

 would be for farmers and proprietors of extensive 

 grounds to cultivate the silk worm in greater 

 quantity, where they might have plantations of 

 the Mulberry on a larger scale." 



This work is only a part of a much larger one 

 upon ihe.suliject which the author purposes to 

 publish. Tiie present publication should be pur- 

 chased by every person interested in the culture 

 of silk or of the mulberry. — Poughkcepsie Tele- 

 graph. 



Hampton, Windham Co. (Conn.) 

 March 17, 1837. 



Mk Fk.ssf.n^dex, — Dear Sir : — Having entirely failed 

 of a crop of Corn last season, in cnnseqiietice of the ear- 

 ly frost, and being desiious of obtaining a kind of seed 

 that will ripen sooner tliau the common kind, you will 

 do me a particular favor hy informing me through the 

 medium of your paper, what kind is the most produc 

 tive : and at the same time, will come to maturity a few 

 weeks sooner than tlie kind that has generally been used 

 by the farmers in Connecticut. By complying with 

 the above, you will grant the request of Mant. 



[The complaint above set forth is general. We have 

 inserted in several of our last pnpers, accounts of the 

 Clark and Dulton Com, which stale that they are much 

 earlier than our common corn, ripeninu; the last of Au- 

 gust The Lathrcp or E'hinney Corn, is another varie- 

 ty well worthy ot being cultivated. It is about us early 

 as the two first named, and ditfeiing from them only in 

 their small, dwarfish stalks and light foliage. The Can- 

 ada f'lf^ld Corn, small ears, is much earlier than the 

 common, and when obtained from the iNortli, rarely dis- 

 appoints the expectant farn)er of a cro(», even in tlie 

 shortest and most unfavorable season. All of the kinds 

 above m<'ntioned, may usually be obtamed at the Seed 

 Store connected with this ofhte.] 



New and highi.v isefit. Invention — Two gentle- 

 men of this town, have lately invented a new method 

 of opening and shutting \Vindow Blinds, which, it 

 strikes us, is higidy usef d. The object attained, is that, 

 of opening and slnitting the blind without opening the 

 window Whoever has been obliged to rise of a cold 

 frosty windy wintry night to shut a fl.ipi)ing blind, and 

 has been made to shiver all night by the exertion ; or 

 whoever has been obliged to slick his head and shoul- 

 ders out of a window into the face of a liail storm, to 

 save his windows by shutting blimis, must feel grateful 

 to the ingenious inventors of this new blind fast. The 

 object proposed is fully attained : the blind is opened 

 and shut, is secured without trouble, and without the 

 admission of wind or wet. The whole is of very sim- 

 ple construction, and constitutes an ornament of the in- 

 terior of the room. Tiie inventors are Meseis Isaac and 

 Rufus Hosnier. — Concord (Ms.) Gaz. 



