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white mulberry trees growing wild, but 

 that they were more fcarce. I afked him 

 and feveral other people of this country ; 

 why they did not fet up filk manufadurcs, 

 having fuch a quantity of mulberries, which 

 fucceed fo eafily ? For it has been obferv- 

 ed that when the berries fall upon the 

 ground where it is not compadt but loofe, 

 they foon put out feveral fine delicate fhoots. 

 But they replied that it would not be worth 

 while to eredt any filk manufactures here, 

 becaufe labour is fo dear. For a man gets 

 from eighteen pence to three (hillings and 

 upwards, for one day's work, and the women 

 are paid in proportion. They were there- 

 fore of opinion that the cultivation of all 

 forts of corn, of hemp, and of flax, would 

 be of greater advantage, and that at the 

 fame time it did not require near fo much 

 care as the feeding of filk worms. By the 

 trials of a governor in Conne£iicut , which 

 is a more northern province than New Tork, 

 it is evident however, that filk worms fuc- 

 ceed very well here, and that this kind of 

 mulberry trees is very good for them. The 

 governor brought up a great quantity of filk 

 worms in his court yard -, and they fucceed- 

 ed fo well, and fpun fo much filk, as to 

 afford him a fufficient quantity for cloath- 

 jng himfelf and all his family. 



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