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each crop, I think they would feel satisfied that at least 

 20,000 more might have been fed from the same, if 

 eggs could have been procured. 



My main object, gentlemen, in making this experi- 

 ment, was to test the comparative hardiness of the mul- 

 ticaulis and the white mulberry. I had a large number 

 of seedlings of the latter kind in the same enclosure ; 

 these were mostly killed by the frosts of the winter. 

 Now the question remains, which of the two should 

 we call the hardy mulberry tree? In the remarks I 

 was kindly permitted to make to the Committee, the 

 last year, I expressed a decided preference in favor of 

 the multicaulis for making silk. I would now only 

 refer those who may have any remaining doubts, and 

 those, if any there be, who may have been led to be 

 cautious as to adopting the views I so confidently enter- 

 tained, or those who may have supposed these views 

 may have emanated from an over-heated zeal, to ex- 

 amine the history and progress of the silk culture the 

 past season throughout the United States, and see if 

 they can find any thing in the thousand instances of 

 complete success recorded, to create a doubt of the 

 superiority of the tree in question. 



TEMPLE CUTLER. 



We hereby certify that we have this day examined 

 the above mentioned nursery of Mr. Cutler, and resi- 

 ding near by, have seen his management of the trees, 

 both this year and last, and are satisfied the above state- 

 ment is correct. OLIVER WHIPPLE, Jr. 



TRISTRAM APPLETON. 



Hamilton, Sept. 28ih, 1841. 



ON SILK MANUFACTURED. 



The Committee report that there were but two speci- 

 mens of manufactured silk presented. One by Mrs. 

 M. P. S. Parker, of Bradford, consisting of a half pound 



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