INDEX. 251 



XIII. Benson's Improved Cocooneries, - - - page 134 



XIV. Mode of Delaying the Hatching of the Eggs, - - 135 

 XV. Destruction of the Moth, ----- 136 



XVI. Reeling and Reels, 137 



XVII. Domestic Industry, ------ 138 



XVIII. Manufacture of Silk, 140 



XIX. Raw Silk, 149 



XX. Calculations respecting Silk Products, . _ _ 158 



XXI. Manufacture of Silk resumed, - - - - 160 



XXU. Manufactures in England, 162 



XXIII. Our own Condition, 163 



XXIV. Production of Silk in Massachusetts, - - - 164 

 XXV. Labor applicable to the Silk Culture, - - - 166 



XXVL Silk Culture, 168 



1. For the Clergy, _..--« 



2. For Pauper Establishments, - - - - 169 



3. For the Shakers, ----- 170 



4. For Schools, ------- 



XXVIL Conclusion, 171 



APPENDIX. 



A. Annual Imports of Bread Stuffs, _ - _ _ 173 



B On Sowing Wheat in Drills or Broad-cast, _ _ - « 



C. On the Cultivation of Wheat— by Elias Phinney, - - 175 



« « — by Zebina Stebbins, - - 179 



D. Manures for Wheat, ------ 180 



A. Nichols' Experiment on Manures, - - - - 183 



E. On Ploughing in Ci'ops for Manure, . - - - 187 

 Letter from S. L. Dana, - - - - - 188 



F. Experiment in Forwarding Seeds — by James Freeman, D. D. - 192 

 Extracts from a letter of Joseph Cooper, - - - ]94 



G. Analysis of Different Varieties of Wheat, - - - 194 



I. Table from Le Couteur, ----- 195 



11. Table from John Morton, 198 



IIL Tahle frojn Le Couteur, ----- 199 



H. On using tlie best Seed, 200 



1. Quantity of Seed to the Acre, ----- 201 



J. Food of Plants— from Turner and Chaptal, - - - 203 



K. Chemical Phenomena in Germination and Vegetation — Turner, 204 



L. On Draining and Sub-soil Ploughing, . - - - 205 



1. Statement by T. Kennedy to Committee of Parliament, - " 



2. Evidence of James Smith, inventor of the Sub-soil Plough, 209 



3. White's account of Draining on Smith's plan, - - 215 



