6 PREFACE. 



full instructions, which I know, if strictly fol- 

 lowed, will insure success. 



By contrasting our advantages, as set forth in 

 these pages, with other countries, it will readily 

 be seen that everything is in our favor, save only 

 education, experience, which might very soon 

 be acquired, and that, too, on a much higher 

 plane than that on which nine tenths of the silk 

 of the world is produced. 



We need not content ourselves with doing as 

 well as others have done. We can do better. 



In the manufacture of silk we captured the 

 highest premiums from the whole world at the 

 Paris Exposition in A. D. 1900. Yet there are no 

 special advantages here for the manufacture of 

 silk, more than in any country from which we 

 import reeled silk and also manufactured goods. 

 But we have here very many special advantages 

 for the production of silk; and with the hope, in 

 some measure, of waking up the people at large 

 to avail themselves of the great advantages we 

 enjoy, and the grand possibilities to which we 

 might attain, I now send forth this little book 

 upon the sea of ever-expanding literature of the 

 twentieth century. 



