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committee of judges on fine arts was attracted by these shawls, of 

 which they thus voluntarily express an opinion in their return, viz : 

 "We would say that if the designs in color of (shawls) No. 1348, 

 are of home invention, and not borrowed from French or other Euro- 

 pean sources, that they are in the highest degree worthy of being 

 judged under the head of Fine Arts, and of being valued the first 

 of their kind." 



Shawls from the manufactory of D. Kellog, Skaneateles, N. Y., 

 took the second premium. Mr. Kellogg exhibited some shawls from 

 his manufactory, which were of very superior quality in fineness of 

 wool and texture, they came in too late for competition, according to 

 the rules of the Fair. 



The Terkeri shawls, from the manufactory of Monoch and Barwey, 

 Lexington, were deemed superior in regard to the printing. 



SILK. 



The culture of silk languishes m the United States, under the ope- 

 ration of laws which might just as well have been formed to encou- 

 rage and protect it, without the slightest probability of encroaching 

 thereby upon the rights, privileges, or interests of any class of our 

 own people. The attention which is now paid to its culture would 

 not have remained, but for a small bounty continued by o'he of the 

 States, and the kindness of our fellow citizen, the Hon. Myndert 

 Van Schaick. The specimens exhibited at our twenty-second Annual 

 Fair were not numerous, but the qualities were of the most superior 

 kind. Specimens of Mr. John M. Summy's crop, from Manheira, 

 Pa., which this year amounts to about 200 lbs. of reeled silk, were 

 deemed better in quality than any which have been shown for several 

 years; our judges in their report say, that " imported raw silk, it is 

 calculated, loses on an average 25 per cent in the spooling, but they 

 feel confident these specimens of Mr. Summy would not lose more 

 than 3 or 4 per cent, at the utmost. 



