INDEX. 



ASPINWALL, NATHAN, and MS services, is, ie. 



ATTENDANTS, necessary fora million of worms, 41 ; do for an 



kcre. 35. 

 AUTHORITIES consulted, 3. 



B 



IK5UNTIES, 13, 16, 17, 18. 

 BRANDF.GEE, Mrs. 18. 

 IWCHANAN, WILLIAM B, 3, 16. 

 UU DOING, 28. 



C 



CABINS, or hedges for the worms to spin on, 46, 50. 

 CALCULATIONS of profit, &c. 18, 19, 31, 32, 33, 34,35, 36, 37. 

 CHRYSALIS?, how to kill, 52. 

 CLEANLINESS, essential, 45. 

 CLKANING and ungtimming, 61. 

 CLIMATE and soil, 1C, 24, 25, 31. 

 COCOONERIES, 18, 19, 38, 39, 40, 41. 

 COCOON'S quantity in a pound of silk, 37 

 number in do. do. 37 ; 

 do. in do. cocoons, 37; 

 yield of, 34 ; 



how to form hedges or cabins for, 46, 50 

 quantities of, 51 ; 

 how to judge, 51 ; 

 how to gather, 51 ; 

 selection of, for eggs, 52 ; 

 proportion of to eggs, 52 ; 

 how to kill the chrysalis in the, 46, 52. 

 COMPANIES formed, 17, 18, 19 ; 

 CONNECTICUT and the culture, 10; 



great value of the manufactures in, 17 ; 

 factories in, 17 ; 

 societies in, 17 ; 



legislative encouragement of the silk culture, 17. 

 CULTIVATION of the mulberry, 20, 28, 30. 



CUTTINGS how to multiply by, 29 ; new method of propagating 

 by, 70 



D 



DANDOLO'S laboratory, 38. 



DELAWARE, 16. 



DICKINSON, Grace, 15. 



DUSTANCES-table of, 37. 



DISEASES and cures of the worms, 53, 54. 



DISBANDING of the silk from the reel, 61. 



DYING SILK-the whole process of, 62, to 68. 



E 



EGGS number in certain quantities of cocoons, 37: 



number laid by a female moth, 37 ; 



mode of hatching, 42 ; 

 - cocoons for, 52 ; 



preservation of, 52 ; 



proportion of cocoons to, 52. 

 F.NEMJES of silk worms, 45 , 53 

 ENGLAND her endeavors to introduce the culture into America, 



12, 16. 

 EVANS, Dr. Cadwallader, 15. 



FACTORIES, 17. 



FEIJDING care to be observed in, 49. 

 FISHER, Grace, 15. 

 FLAX, Sirs. 16. 

 FRANKLIN, Dr. 15. 

 FOLIAGE time of gathering, 31; 

 yield of, 31, 32, 33, 34; 

 supply of, 38 ; 



quantity required, 32, 34, 37, 47. 

 FOOD for worms early supply of, 22, 29 ; 



to be kept dry, 38 ; 



when leaves may be gathered for, 31,38 



quantity of, on an acre, 34; 



apportionment of, 47. 

 FUMIGATION, 53. 



G 



GEE, Joshua, extracts from, 13, 14. 



GENERAL RULES and observations, 47, 49. 

 GEORGIA and the culture 15 10 

 GRAFTING, 23. 



H 



HATCHING the eggs, 42 ; time for, 42. 



HEDGES, how planted, &c. 27, 28; distance of, 27,28; divis- 

 ion, 29. 



HEDGES or cabins for the worms to spin on, 46, 50. 



HISTORY of Silk sketch of the, 9; introduction of the culture 

 into China, 10 ; do. into Greece, 10 ; do. into Rome, 10 , do! a- 

 mong the Persians, 11 ; do. into Europe, 11 ; do. into England, 

 11 ; interesting incidents connected with the Lombes, 12; in- 

 troduction of the culture into America, 12 ; do. into South Ca- 

 rolina. 13. 



HORRY, Mrs , 15. 



HURDLES, or frames, 39, 40, 41, 



I 



ILLINOIS and the culture, 19. 

 INDIANA and the culture 19. 

 INTRODUCTORY remarks, 9. 



JAMES I. and the silk culture, 12, 13. 



K 



KENTUCKY and the culture. 



LABORATORIES, 18, 19, 38. 39, 40, 41. 

 LABORERS, expense and number of, 35, 41 

 LEA VES when they may be fed, 31, 38 ; 



early supply of, 29; 



calculations concerning the supply of, 32, 34, 38; 



quantity consumed by given numbers of worms, 33. 

 34 37; 



mode of gathering, 37 ; 



yield of, 31, 32, 33, 34; 



mode of picking, preparing, &c. 49. 

 LAYERING, 29. 

 LIVE FENCES, 29. 

 LOMBES, the Messrs., 12. 



M 



MACAULEY, Catharine. 15. 

 MACHINERY, 15,60. 

 MAINE and the culture, 19. 

 MANUFACTURES, &c. 15, 16, 17. 

 MARYLAND and the culture, 14, 16. 

 MAUKETS for selling raw silk, 61. 

 MASSACHUSETTS and the silk culture, 18 - 

 legislative bounty, 18 ; 

 great product of 4 acres in, 18. 

 MODES of MULTIPLYING, 28, 29, 30, 68, 69. 

 MULBERRY CULTURE, varieties of, &c. moral and political 

 effect of, 20, 68 ; 



adaptation of certain states for, 14, 69 : 

 proBts of, 18, 19. 31, 33, 34, 35, 36,37; 

 me hoil of sowing seed) 26 ; 

 theMoRUS NIORA, 21 ; 

 the MORUS ALBA, its culture, fitness to the climate. 



&e. 21,25, 26, 69 ; varieties of, 26 ; 

 tlie MORUS MULTICACLIS, its value, adaptation, har- 

 diness, c. 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 41, 69 ; G B. Smith's 

 opinion of, 69 : his mode of managing cut- 

 tings, 70 : 



distance of planting, 28. 

 MULBERRY ORCHARDS-roots to be cultivated In, 31. 



R 



NEW HAMPSHIRE and the culture, 19. 



NEW JEHSEY and the culture, 15. 



NEW YORK and the culture, 19. 



N ORRIS, Mrs. Keziah, 16. 



NORTH CAROLINA and the culture, 16, 21. 



O 



OHIO and the culture, 19. 

 OKCHAHDS planted, 18. 



