60 0^ MULBERRY TREES, &LC. 



will afford sufficient food to make it an object to rear them for 

 profit. 



THOMAS BAILEY S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, on the 



cultivation of Mulberry Trees, &fc. 



Gentlemen — The following I submit for your consideration, 

 viz : A nursery of white mulberry trees, consisting of more than 

 25,000, standing on two pieces of land in Amesbury, containing 

 70 rods. The trees are of various heights from 1 1-2, 2, 3, 

 4, 5 and 6 feet. I think upon an average they will exceed 3 

 feet — have hoed them this season four times — cannot tell exact- 

 ly the amount of labour done on them — perhaps it would not 

 be far from 6 days — said trees are in the second' year's growth. 



Also, I have about 20,000 cocoons produced from the silk 

 worms the present year, weighing 60 lbs, the moth not stifled. — 

 I selected some of the best cocoons ; when weighed, the number 

 did not exceed 208 to the pound, the moth not killed. The av- 

 erage nnmber I raised for a pound is about 330. In the first 

 age of the worms the labor spent in gathering leaves and feeding 

 was about half an hour each day — in the last or fifih age it was 

 from 2 to 3 hours each day. The worms were from 32 to 40 

 (days before they formed the cocoons. 



Very respectfully yours, 



Thomas Bailey. 



Amesbury, Sejpt. 26th, 1833. 



GARDNER B. PERRY S STATEMENT. 



Ebenezer Moseley, Esq. Chairman of the Committee on 



Mulberry and Forest Trees. 



Dear Sir, — The trees to which I wish to call the attention of 

 the Committee, are, first : 



A nursery of white mulberry trees believed to be of a superi- 

 or quality, uf three years growth. Those of three years, con- 



