of climate, and at best these are by no means effective at once ; 

 with bad weather and inferior leaf the process of dissolution is 

 marvellously rapid and the worms perish by millions; this is 

 especially the case when the caterpillars are near maturity. 



EXTRACT from the Sydney Mail of the 23rd July, 1870. 



Ds. BENNETT has obliged us with a letter written to him in his 

 capacity of President of the Acclimatisation Society, by Mr. Brady, 

 from which we make a few extracts. Mr. Brady gives an account 

 of his twelve months' transactions at Curl Curl, where he is 

 nursing what he supposes to be the germ from which the silk 

 industry of New South "Wales is to spring. He says : 



" I hare now closed up active operations for the season with all living silk- 

 worms (except the moths, a few of which remain) ; and, as you desire to know 

 the result, as far as concerns the importations of the Acclimatisation Society, 

 I have the pleasure of confirming my first report, and informing you that the 

 mulberry worms from India continued to the last to do well. Of course the 

 yield of silk is much inferior in quantity to that from the principal European 

 races, but the quality and lustre are excellent. For my own part I think 

 the outturn of these small yielding worms, double, treble, or many brooded 

 in the season taking into account the cost of labour, food, and management, 

 &c., as well as the safety of a profitable result if worked in a proper manner 

 bears a very favourable comparison with the outturn from the more valuable 

 but much more difficult to rear and precarious-lived single-brooded womis 

 (annuals) of Europe or Japan. In the first case, operations continue for mouths 

 .at any time spring, summer, or autumn, or for as long or for as short a time 

 as mulberry leaf is available ; in the latter only for a few weeks in spring, 

 subject to all the vicissitudes and chances of the most uncertain period of the 

 year, unless indeed the grower adopts my system of bringing the annuals into 

 period by cold and moisture, as well as warmth, whenever they are wanted. 

 If there was any attention given to this subject in the Colony, or it could be 

 made worth while, E could easily manage to supply not eggs unhatched or 

 uncertain, but young living silkworms, of fiae kinds, which other persons 

 ,growing or possessing the food could at any time procure from me, and rear 

 through the rest of their natural course, and thus avoiding expensive pre- 

 parations, requiring a good deal of skill and management, reap a certain profit 

 from a very small outlay." 



Private letters contain information relative to the reception of 

 a packet of silkworm eggs, by the highest silk authorities in 

 Europe, from Mr, Brady's stock raised at Manly. In Italy they 

 were received with great favour. " They were everywhere pro- 

 nounced to be splendid fertile eggs, which is a point of great 

 importance in France and Italy, as their own native races are so 

 diseased as to be useless for mercantile purposes," says one 

 correspondent. Cocoons of the same race (Milanese) possessed 

 by Mr. Brady pleased them exceedingly, and the writer informs 

 his correspondent that " eggs of that species would find a good 

 market in France and Italy." One of the best authorities in 

 France on silkworms pronounced the samples in fine condition, 

 and greatly admired the system adopted in transporting them. 



