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vice, and we must infuse such wiser and better life as we have 

 into the civilization that must be, and wait patiently until it 

 comes of age, and can prove that goodness and beauty were 

 not exhausted by the world of our fathers, but can be realized 

 even within the precincts of the huge factory, and within sound 

 of the heavy bell. 



It is hardly necessary to commend the subject of domestic 

 manufactures to the residents of Old Hampshire. They were 

 by no means the last to occupy the new ground of skilful in- 

 dustry, which has been opened in these modern times. Though 

 they have been outstripped of late in the magnificence of 

 great establishments, the cities of mills that have risen like 

 magic upon the shores of the New England rivers, yet the 

 wollens, cutlery and paper, and silk, buttons and brooms of 

 Hampshire, have long been and still are established favorites 

 in the great markets ; and we can show an increase in the num- 

 ber and extent of manufacturing establishments. We wish that 

 we could say as much of the manufactured articles on exhibi- 

 tion at our Fairs. 



RUFUS ELLIS, Chairman. 



D. Stehhins^s Statement. 



I present for the examination of those interested in the silk 

 culture, fifty samples of silk made in Persia, with the several 

 prices, for the Russian market, affixed on cards. Also a card 

 containing American and foreign reeled silk, floss, and cocoons ; 

 also an impression of Canton foliage leaf, 9 by 7 inches, grown 

 the present year at St. Louis, Mo., the product of stock sent 

 there from Northampton, to commence a mulberry plantation. 

 Another large shipment of trees and seed for several acres, was 

 made the 4th inst., in the hope that this may form a nucleus to 

 overspread the country with something more useful than Cali- 

 fornia dust. Our soil and climate are propitious to the growth 

 of the mulberry ; our industrial habits and mechanical tact are 

 adapted to make this country the emporium of silk culture. 



The object of mulberry plantations at St. Louis, is not only 

 for feeding silk worms and reeling silk for market, but to use 

 the annual stalks, after feeding, to make bark silk, a sample of 



