We will now, for the better satisfaction of 

 the reader who may desire to be thoroughly in- 

 formed with respect to actual profits, without 

 the trouble of reducing the data given to calcula- 

 tion, prepare a table, showing the exact profit 

 upon 1, 5 and 10 acres in the Mulberry culture, 

 according to the data furnished by Mr. D'Hom- 

 ergue, that of Count Dandolo, and ourself, the 

 actual cost of labor being charged. 



As we desire to be fully understood upon 

 this important branch of the subject, we will en- 

 ter somewhat more at large upon it. We ask 

 leave then, in the first instance, to remind the 

 reader that we have assumed the ability of an 

 acre of ground in Mulberry trees, six years old, 

 to sustain 540,000 worms. This number is ar- 

 bitrary, it may be said, and so it is, as also is 

 that of the yield of single trees ; but they are both 

 in our estimation low. We believe that if a 

 standard tree 20 years old, will yield 200 Ibs. of 

 foliage, it is a moderate calculation to say that 

 one in the hedge row at 4 years old will give 

 4 Ibs., and that at 6 it will yield 7 Ibs. Mr. 

 D'Homergue estimates that a standard tree of 

 the same nge will yield 30 Ibs., and when we 



