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consumed, and the care and cleanliness with which 

 they are attended. That is, they will make more 

 and belter silk if they have been well fed and care- 

 fully attended, than if they have been stinted in their 

 food and suffered to remain in their filth. 



In the early settlements of Georgia, cocoons were 

 made of an uncommon weight. There were instan- 

 ces when two hundred weighed a pound avoirdupois; 

 and Mrs Davenport made some, under the direction 

 of Mr. Cobb, two hundred and six of which made a 

 pound. M. Bonafous averages them at t\vo hundred 

 and s'rfty six to the pound, nnd a Mr. B'-isti of Penn- 

 sylvania, made a quantity which required three hun- 

 dred and six to the pound. Mr. D'Homergue fed 

 worms from Carolina, and also from France, the for- 

 mer made cocoons which required three hundred and 

 thirty seven to the pound, and the latter three hun- 

 dred and eighty seven. 



Count de ilazzi calculates that from seven to ten 

 pounds of cocoons will make a pourd of reeled silk. 

 In France, twelve pounds have been required, while 

 two thirds of that weight have given a pound of silk 

 in this country. Mr. Cobb reeled from 8000 cocoons 

 three pounds, including floss. 



A large yield has been obtained from a lot produ- 

 ced the past season, by Mr. Lyman Atwater, of New 

 Haven, and reeled at the factory of the Connecticut 

 Silk Manufacturing Company, in Hartford. From 

 the books of the company* it appears that from thirty- 

 four and a quarter pounds ot cocoons, nine pounds 

 and three ounces of which were damaged, six and 

 three-fourths pounds of silk were reeled. By this state- 

 ment, it will be seen that five pounds of cocoons yield- 

 ed about a pound of reeled silk. This, however, is a 



