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upon our towns and cities, which have to support them. 

 These different places could be relieved from these 

 burdens by planting with mulberry, trees all the farms 

 that are connected "with many of these establishments. 

 The gathering of the branches, the feeding of the worms, 

 the cleaning of the cocoons, etc., would be an agreeable 

 pastime for the children and aged persons ; and this 

 will have the advantage of learning the young a useful 

 business for the future ; and also, in doing so, it will 

 afford the institutions an opportunity of making them com- 

 fortable, and have them well educated, in providing them 

 with good teachers. They will be enabled also to give 

 comfort to the poor and aged persons that have been 

 driven there through adverse fortune, as a last resort, 

 and have placed themselves under the public care, but 

 are still possessed of the finer feelings of our nature. 



19th. If any of the above-named benevolent estab- 

 lishments are still inside of the cities, and consequently 

 not connected with any land to cultivate and work upon, 

 it would be necessary that such establishments, for the 

 benefit of all, should be removed to the country ; and I 

 would suggest, in that case, that good mulberry land 

 should be selected in a healthy locality, in view of the 

 good health and comfort of the inmates ; such a locality 

 will be ten times better for them, as they will have more 

 of the pure air than they have in the cities, and the 

 cities, at the same time, will be benefited thereby. 

 These remarks I leave for consideration. 



20th. In these benevolent institutions, besides the 

 raising of silk, that would keep them busy for about two 



