54 ON MULBERRY TREES. 



ON MULBERRY TREES. 



The Committee on Mulberry Trees, Report : 



That for the grounds on which the Society's pre- 

 miums are asked they would respectfully refer its ex- 

 ecutive officers to the statements which the claimants 

 have severally made, and which the Committee believe 

 to be substantially correct. And in carrying out the 

 trust committed to them they respectfully recommend 

 that the 



1st prem. of §T5 be awarded to Geo. Hood, of Lynn. 



2d do. $10 do. to Ira Hardy, for his 



orchard of white mulberry trees in Boxford. 



That the first premium of $10 for the best nursery of 

 mulberry trees, of not more than two years growth, be 

 awarded to George Hood, of Lynn. 



The second, of $5, to Temple Cutler, of Hamilton. 



The Committee in submitting this report, would re- 

 spectfully suggest, as a subject worthy of reflection, 

 whether the object contemplated by the encouragement 

 held out by the Society, by its premiums on mulberry 

 trees, &c. would not be more fully realized, should 

 the premiums for the future be mostly or even exclu- 

 sively confined to awards on silk raised and reeled, and 

 articles manufactured from such silk. This appears to 

 your Committee to be the plan in which public patron- 

 age is most particularly needed. It is the point where 

 the enterprise labors ; while after the great number of 

 successful efforts in raising the trees, and the small 

 comparative expense at which it can be done, there real- 

 ly appears to your Committee, but little reason why fur- 

 ther public patronage should be extended to that branch 

 of the business. It is also a fact worthy of considera- 

 tion that under the patronage of the Society there are 

 now scattered over the County, a great number of trees 

 of different ages which are yielding no profit. While 

 not a few upon which premiums have been awarded 

 have been cut down, or suffered by neglect to decay 

 away, the foliage of which, if it could be brought into 



