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produced in Britain, and the loss of silkworms 

 from deaths is recorded at only three per cent. 

 Want of proper management has been, and still 

 is, the greatest barrier against silk-culture. It is 

 not enough to know simply that silkworms eat 

 mulberry leaves, and in due time convert a 

 portion of them into silk fiber. No. The leaves 

 must be maintained in a perfectly healthy condi- 

 tion, and administered in proper way, at proper 

 times. 



The work is so fascinating, and the demand 

 for silk so fully assured in all civilized countries, 

 that people without means are often tempted to 

 begin the work, when they have not sufficient 

 capital to make the provision that is necessary 

 in the first stages of this, as it is in any, business. 





