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lated to advance the enterprise more than any other single instnimen 

 tality can do. 



Resolved, That we believe it the duty of the legislat\:res of the 

 several States, each to offer immediately a liberal hoiinty for the pro- 

 duction of cocoons; and that we regret that the State of New-York 

 should have refused, in opposition to the memorials of a considerable 

 portion of the people, to renew a bounty whicli has been fostering the 

 business for six years past. 



Resolved, That we recommend to state and county agricultural col- 

 leges and institutes, the importance of connecting with their opera- 

 tions a department for the culture of silk, under the direction of those 

 qualified to give instructions in this branch of industry. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



A. C. VAN EPPS, 



J. B. HYDE, 



J. M. SUMMEY, 



H. P. BYRAM, Committee, 



NEW-ENGLAND SILK CONVENTION. 



The conventinn met at Northampton on Wednesday, August 19th, 

 pursuant to a call by the officers of the last year. 



Mr. Daniel Stebbins, of Northampton, in the chair; J. W. Smith, 

 secretary. 



The President stated that the officers had deem'^d it expedient to 

 call the convention at an earlier day than usual, ftnd had selected this 

 as the place (Dr. D.'s cocoonery), in order to show the subject in the 

 most practical and imposing manner. Before them were the silk- 

 worms feeding and spinning; yonder a reel with some most beautiful 

 silk just reeled from the cocoons, by Mr. A. C. Van Epps, of the 

 New-York filature, who, with his brother, have been here some time 

 feeding a crop of worms, which have been carried through success- 

 fully, to the admiration and satisfaction of numerous citizens and 

 strangers, who have from day to day visited them. In another part of 

 the building might be seen an extensive and splendid exhibition of 

 manufactured silk goods of a great variety — the handiwork of our 

 own countrymen, and from raw material of our oW-n production; 



