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Silk watch chain, by Hannah Woodman, Haverhill, gratuity $1 

 Sampler, by Sarah E. Slocura, Haverhill, gratuity • - j 



Two beaver hats, by Nathan Webster, Haverhill. 

 Grecian pembroke work table, by Capt. Charles Short, Ha- 

 verhill. 

 A mahogany looking glass frame, by the same. 

 A chaise of very elegant construction, by Brown and Davis, 

 Haverhill. 



The Committee were much pleased with, the exhibition of a 

 quantity of Hosiery, manufactured by the Newburyport Hosiery 

 Company. It is understood that this Society does not offer premi- 

 ums for articles manufactured by Incorporated Companies. The 

 Committee however, take great pleasure in recommending this 

 Company to the favorable notice of the public. 



The Company exhibited eighteen pair of Stockings, of nine dif- 

 ferent qualities, v/hich the Committee consider equal if not superior 

 to any Hosiery imported into the country. 



The Committee would have been pleased had the culture of Silk, 

 been enumerated among the articles for which premiums are award- 

 ed by the Society. They consider the culture of this article so im- 

 portant, that they would urge the members of the Society in the 

 strongest terms, to awake to this important subject of national in- 

 diistry. It is well ascertained that every part of the United States, 

 and particularly New-England, is well calculated for the growth of 

 the Mulberry tree ; and wherever this tree will grow there the silk 

 worm may be reared. By a report of the late Secretary of the 

 Treasury, it appears, that in 1825 silk of the value of more than 

 ten millions of dollars was imported into the United States. It is 

 stated on high authority as a fact, that five small towns in the State 

 of Connecticut produced in one season, nearly two tons and a half 

 of raw silk, and of the value of more than twenty thousand dollars^ 

 The town of Mansfield, in that State, containing a population of 

 about 2500, produced 2430 lbs. of silk, while the staple of the 

 South is cotton, rice and tobacco. May not our staple, ere long be 

 silk ; and is not the time at hand, when the culture of silk and its 

 manufacture will be a portion of the wealth of New-England. 



The Committee have been led to these remarks, from the circum- 

 stance that Mr. Enoch Boynton, of Newbury, has exhibited to the 

 Committee a quantity of silk made by worms, reared by himself, 



