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all countries, and sought to eliminate disease 

 from them, and sometimes found it necessary to 

 destroy the product of an ounce of eggs (40,000), 

 all except one couple, from which he would 

 propagate from that respective race. England, 

 having a faithful, watch care over her colonies, 

 as well in their industrial development as other- 

 wise, was greatly exercised about the spread of 

 the silk disease, as its widespread effects seemed 

 very likely to put a stop to the many silk-looms 

 that gave employment to so many of her sub- 

 jects. While there was scarce an ounce of 

 healthy silk grain to be found in any country 

 (except Japan), Colonel Brady was faithfully 

 toiling battling against the fatal enemy. One 

 special race that he succeeded in establishing in 

 perfect health was the Milanaise, which race is 

 now held in very high esteem. 



All writers on this subject about that time 

 gave it as their judgment, that the general cause 

 of failure was the want of proper calculation in 

 attempting to rear worms when suitable provis- 

 ion had not been made for their maintenance, 

 and a knowledge of their requirements had not 

 been attained. This seems to be the reason why 

 such poor quality of silk comes from India. In 

 some of the experiments in Australia, the mulberry 

 trees used were the Morus multicaulis, which is 



