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the quantity will be still large enough. The leaves 

 must be of the best quality to give a pound of silk to 

 one hundred pounds of leaves ; it would require much 

 more of watery leaves, or leaves grown in the shade. 



16th. Supposing, as an average, fifty-five thousand 

 pounds of leaves to the acre, on stools four years old, 

 this would, consequently, at one hundred pounds for 

 each pound of silk, give five hundred and fifty pounds 

 of silk, which, at seven dollars per pound, would be only 

 $3,850 per acre. Now, the work to be done that year, 

 to have the silk ready for market, according to our 

 simplified culture, which is the only one to follow under 

 our fine and dry climate I have tried to calculate in 

 different ways, and I find it always $840 and $850 

 this would leave, then, a net profit of three thousand 

 dollars per acre ; but supposing two hundred dollars 

 more were needed, for things that I may have forgotten, 

 (but I think not) it would still be two thousand and 

 eight hundred dollars net profit per acre. This is 

 about reasonable, and I would feel satisfied to have one 

 hundred acres paying me in that proportion. 



17th. The business is rather new in this country 

 but I would recommend that all would try it. This 

 can be done with a small expense, as we ought all to 

 help each other to go into that enterprise, as it is the 

 surest, the best, and the only one where competition 

 need not be feared. Then I hope that a liberal spirit 

 will pervade all classes throughout our silk State. 



18th. Now, another thing : it is well known that 

 poorhouses and orphan asylums are public burdens 

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