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sity of maintaining most elaborate details of ser- 

 vice, and a complication of offices that Con- 

 gress could not see any need for, and conse- 

 quently they refused to grant so large an amount, 

 and the department refused to take any less, and 

 so the conclusion of the whole matter was that 

 the silk bureau at Washington was closed. The 

 market for cocoons was no more, and what eggs 

 of the silkworm were then on hand were scattered 

 freely to all who sent for them. Those who re- 

 ceived eggs were informed that there would no 

 longer be a market in Washington for cocoons, 

 nor was it likely there would be again for years 

 in the United States. 



The Woman's Association at Philadelphia was 

 forced by this action to suppress all further 

 efforts, as they were unable to bear the whole 

 burden, and thus failed to obtain any further aid 

 from the government. 



The twenty-eight states that had planted trees, 

 hoping soon to be self-supporting in the silk 

 business, when the trees had attained sufficient 

 growth, became discouraged, and turned their 

 cocooneries to other purposes, while their mul- 

 berry groves were either neglected or hewed down 

 for fuel. 



This action of the silk manufacturers and the 

 silk bureau at Washington, on the one hand, and 



