PREMIUMS OFFERED. 91 



S. For the best nursery of White Mulberry Trees, not ex- 

 ceeding two years growth, twenty dollars 



4. For the second best, fifteen dollars. 

 (0*The foregoing were offered the last year, to be paid the 



present year. 



5. For the best Silk, produced and reeled within the 

 county, amounting to at least one pound, seven dollars. 



6. For the second best, five dollars. 



7. For the most valuable parcel of Silk, produced by the en- 

 terprise of one family, the present year, and exhibited either in 

 cocoons, reeled, or manufactured, seven dollars. 



8. For the second best, five dollars. 



(JJ' The same parcel not to be entitled to more than one 

 premium. 



9. To the person who shall be found in the autumn of 

 1837, to have improved or increased his present means of 

 prosecuting the culture of Silk to the greatest extent, and 

 upon the most economical and practical plan, within this coun- 

 ty, twenty dollars. 



10. To the second greatest extent, fifteen dollars. 



11. To the person who shall fit up a building, room, or 

 apartment, which, from its size, shape, fixtures, means of ven- 

 tilation, &;c, he, shall be judged best calculated to secure the 

 health and growth of the silkworm, afford the best convenience 

 for feeding, cleaning the shelves or stands, and fixing the arches, 

 he. for the cocoons, and which from its simplicity and economic- 

 al structure shall be such as may be generally adopted by those 

 who may engage to a considerable extent in the silk culture, a 

 premium of thirty dollars. 



REMARKS. 



All applications for the foregoing premiums must be accom- 

 panied with statements of the expense of time and money in- 

 curred, the whole management of the trees, worms, &c., the 

 method of reeling and manufacture of the silk, and whatever 

 may be necessary to enable the committee, and all concerned, 

 to judge o( the expediency of encouraging the farmers of the 



