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Other distinguished and practical men expressed the same opinion, 

 and stated that " you may at once calculate on my being able to 

 place for you a, large amount of eggs." Another letter says, 

 " the eggs were found in excellent order not a single egg was 

 hatched and not one was crushed." 



This, then, is the information we get concerning Australian 

 "grain " (the technical term by which eggs are now known). 

 Mr. Brady's observations on these facts, in the letter alluded to, 

 is this : " The result of the first shipment also bears out what I 

 have so often told you and others of the practicability of supplying 

 from here the markets of Europe with better and more reliable 

 grain than can be obtained in any other part of the world." 



It thus appears that Mr. Brady's experiments have put us in 

 possession of knowledge with relation to our advantages over the 

 rest of the world as silkworm egg producers, for which we have 

 reason to be very thankful. Our advantages are twofold. In 

 the first place, in our climate the Italian, French, and Japan 

 worms have been produced without any trace of the disease which 

 ravages them at Home ; and in the second, we are in a position to 

 supply newer seed to the European sericulturists than can be 

 done from any other part, seeing that the " grain " season here is 

 December, January, February, which allows of the seed or grain 

 arriving in the cold season, and having no tendency to hatch 

 before the food is ready for it. In Japan and California the 

 grain season is the same as in Europe, and consequently time 

 is lost, and the seed is comparatively old when hatched. 



Something should be done in this matter. We can produce 

 cocoons with the assurance of obtaining an active market for 

 them, which never has been the case before ; and should Mr. 

 Brady's expectations be confirmed, the climate of New South 

 "Wales will enable several crops to be produced in the year. 

 And then, further, for the more skilful we have accorded to us, 

 apparently by geographical position, the speciality of producing 

 eggs for exportation of great superiority. 



.LI B H A li 



Sydney : Thomas Richards, Government Printer. 1870, 



