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2d. There is no other culture so rich as the culture 

 of silk, if the farmers and planters only give their atten- 

 tion to it ; and with that culture only, we would soon 

 be able to pay our national debt and our own. Nothing 

 could be so profitable to the United States, and our 

 Congress ought to take the matter into serious consid- 

 eration. We have in a great measure to depend on our 

 Congressmen to see that that rich culture is established 

 generally. They only have simply to maintain a high 

 tariff on the article for a few years, and the culti- 

 vation and the manufacture of silk will be established 

 everywhere throughout the country. We trust that 

 they will look to the general good of the country, and 

 not to the benefit of only a few. 



3d. The culture of silk is in itself simple ; and the 

 farmers, their wives and their children, the old and 

 the young all will find pleasure and profit in that 

 culture. It is principally for them that I write this 

 little book, in giving them facts only, and the simple 

 culture of our silk producing country. 



4th. The farmers who are blessed with a large 

 family of children, are those that are naturally better 

 situated to cultivate and raise the silk more profitably 

 than others, as they are not obliged to hire any extra 

 help at feeding time. 



5th. The wife, or the eldest daughter, of the farmer 

 can study this Manual, and then they will be able to 

 superintend the work of feeding, etc., in showing and 

 telling the younger ones what they have to do. 



6th. I wish that each farmer would take the trouble 



