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laiter pnrt of April or 1st of May ; from the leaves of 

 these his wife or children can feed JO, 000 worms. 

 The eggs may be purchased for ten shillings, He 

 can in a lew minutes erect shelves in a room of hia 

 house, barn, or any out house, to feed his worms on ; 

 if well attemled, they will produce three bushels of 

 cocoons, or 3 lbs. of reeled silk. He can in the fall 

 take up his trees, preserve them through the winter, 

 and plant holf an acre in the spring. By doing ibis 

 for three euccetsivo years, in the spring of the fourth 

 year, he will have trees to plant five acres, and 20,000 

 to dispose of. Five acn s of tries, with proper man- 

 agemciit, will feed 500,000 worms. Thenceforward 

 he will have Utile or no trouble wiib his trees: he may 

 leave them in the ground all winter, and the neit 

 year he may feed half as many more worms, say 750,- 

 000, the year following, double ih» quantity oftUs 

 first yeor, or 1,000,000. 



The following calculations may appear at first sight 

 extrovogant, but as it is well known one acre of trees 

 will feed 100,000 worms, with proper management, 

 five acres, with the same management, will feed 

 500,000. 



1 would here observe that these calculations are 

 made without reference to casualties that may happen 

 — such as Occidents, mismanagement, unfavorable 

 weather, di&eascs amongst the worms, &c. &,c., 

 hough I have no doubt of complete erccess following 

 constant attention, careful, good management, proper 

 feedmg, sufficient room for the worms, end a free cir- 

 culation of pure air. From my own experience and 

 observation 1 am perfecdy satisfied it is a business 

 worthy the attention of farmers, provided they cna 

 get their wives and children interested in it. If so, 

 there can be no reasonable doubt of its complete 

 success. 



I have in the following statement valued the co- 

 coons at an average of $3,50 per bushel. The Slate 

 bounty of 15 cents per lb. will make tbnm worth $5. 

 By reeling the silk, which wdl not cost more than ^1 

 per bushel, the value will be yet more increased, and 

 by adding the S:ate bounty on reeled silk, fifty cents 

 per pound, the silk, if well handled, will be worth $8 

 per lb. 



Stntement of the product of 500 trees plaritd the 



riKST-YEAR. 



10,000 worms producing 3 bush, cocoons at 



$5 per bush $15 00 



Expence of 10,000 eggs 1 25 



Profit $13 75 



SECO.ND TEAR. 



50,000 worms, 15 bush, cocoons, at $5.... $75 00 



THIRD YEAR. 



200,000 worms, 60 bush, cocoons, at ,^5.. . $rOO I 

 Expcncci^, say 50 00 



Profit $250 UO 



FOURTH TK.IR. 



500,000 worms, 150 bush, cocoons, at $5.. $750 00 

 20,000 trees for sale, at $1 per 100 2U0 00 



(The Slate bounty ends this year.) $9.50 00 



E.ipenses, say 150 00 



Profit $800 00 



FIFTH YEAR. 



5 acres, the second year in ihe ground, 750,- 



000 worms, 2i5 bush, cocoons, at $3 50, §785 50 

 Expenses, say 200 00 



Profit $.565 50 



SIXTH TEAR. 



5 acres, the 3rd year, 1.000,000 worms, 300 



bush, cocoons at .$3 50 $1050 00 



Expences, say 250 00 



Profit $800 00 



The floss and cocoons which have been spoiled for 

 reeling to produce each year's stock of eggs, may be 

 manufactured into cloth, which will contribute no 

 small portion of clothing for the family. J. B. 



A[aiama, Gnn^itt Co., -W;y, 1841.* 



For the JVtu: Gencssee Farmer. 



Beply to S. K. W. on the Corn Laws. 



' [Eisus. EiiiTORs — Your correspondent S. R. W. 

 tadecidcd that the lessons of paiience and self de- 

 «• which S. \V. atlempts to " read to farmers" are 

 li ypsrs behind the oge," It is hardly necessory 

 I'c no to soy that he has not gone back far enough by 

 n h' eighteen hundred years — such lessons are coe- 

 5, with the Gospel D.spenaalion — they were the les- 

 Ri which Christ taught and Paul prciched. 



1 my former articles on the national tariff", on im- 

 11 J. the English Corn Laws, &,c. , I endeavored to 

 rrcss farmers with the necessity of depending on 

 I pioducis of their own industry, and living within 



I r own domestic resources, without looking too 

 r b to legislation, or to aid from without. If 1 have, 



,!c statistics I have given, succeeded in convinc- 

 r n single individual reader of ihe Farmer, ihat the 

 H s ot high prices were years of unnatural inflalion, 

 : ■nvngance, debt and ruin ; and that the subsequent 

 )iixl of low prices has been one of liquidaiion, rc- 

 a iiig industry, economy and consequent pecuniary 

 ]. lb, then I am well paid for my labors. But as 

 n notions of political and domestic economy have 



II 'iiic instances given dissatisfaction to the readers 

 if ,: Farmer, I had resolved to abandon the subject, 

 II should not now have adverted lo it, bnt to defend 



o( my articles from the strictures of S. R. W. 

 R. \V. felicitates himself on the progress of 

 trade in England, and its spread in the United 



--." He speaka of the landed interest of Eng- 

 a us "sc{/£s/i, and regardless of sulTering humani- 

 T ond he predicts a much better market for our 

 f 11 when the English Corn Laws are repealed. 



hould, asoneoftho readers of the Farmer, be 

 il led to learn from S R. W. how England is to 

 |e long with her stupendous debt, without the land- 

 id lerest. Who pays the great bulk of the taxes 

 u le landed interest ; who most supports the enor- 

 n I home trade of £100,000,000, sierling, but the 

 a J interest ; who feeds the people but the londed 

 n L'st. Selfish as they are, their selfishness appears 



wonderfully adapted to the wants of the nation. 

 r about feeding England from the United States 1 

 f' wenty-five years previous to 1 825 all the foreign 

 V imported into England did not amount to more 

 h one week's supply. Since that lime in 1S31, a 

 '( of very thort crops, all the grain imported 



inted to but twenty-five days' consumption, and 

 m one-seventh part, or three and a hall days' supply, 

 »• eceived from the United States of America. 



the corn laAS we.-e repealed, Europe would sup- 

 '1; 'real Britain with corn at as low prices as it is 

 walling in N. Y, adding the Atlantic freight, if 



10 )wer ; and the present prices in N. Y. are below 

 h verage, and certainly lower then S. R. W. with 



11 iiproved nudern notion?, thinks they ought to 

 If In 1837 we imported nearly a million of bushels 



1 beat and Rye from German and Russian ports, 

 in lilt foi the duty of 25 cents per buehel (an Amer- 

 ei not an English, corn law J wheat would often be 

 or rted into the United S'.ates for our own consump- 



R. W. says that the English corn lai^s are the 

 '"•»; of incalculable misery. There are thousands of 



1 ill England with wise heads and pure benevolent 

 'f 5, who differ with S. R. W. in opinion. It is 



It even the timc-scrririg Lord John Russell is 

 together sincere in his eulogy of free trade, lor 

 I s any thing but free trade that has made England 

 »/ she is. 



the introduction of foreign corn should cause the 

 JInense capital now employed in British agriculture 

 *> only in part withdrawn, what would be the state 

 •rf ogrejt home trade, which le new the only trade 



that remunerates the manufacturer and enables him 

 to feed his operatives. Would not the laboring class- 

 es of England then resemble the Irish peasantry, 

 startivg in the midst of plenty, for the tcant of that 

 employment which alone can furnish the means lo buy? 



S. R. W. says that " the interest of millions at 

 the north are neglected by our Government," '-while 

 a few hundred thousand at the south have an accredit 

 ed representative at Si. James, watching every move- 

 ment which may otTect their fnvorile exports." It is 

 somewhat illiberal, if nouinvidious, in S. R. W. to ac- 

 cuse the South with any thing more than their due 

 ipiantiim of social and political sins. The facts in 

 the case are simply these : Corn is indigenous in 

 England, but Cotion is not, ond besides cotton is on 

 indispensable article in her manufactures, hence the 

 duty on our flour there, and the free admission of 

 our cotton. The South is no more to blame for this 

 discriminotion on the part of England in favor of their 

 great staple, than they are that the Compromise Law 

 imposes no duly on imported silks and wines. The 

 South was willing to have these articles taxed, but 

 Mr. Clay preferred placing the duty on such corres- 

 pondent arlicles as were manufactured in ihe United 

 States. Yet by odmilling silks free, the exports of 

 the south are increased to the manifest prejudice of 

 the nation at large. 



I might extend this communication by dwelling on 

 the importance, not of encouraging a free trade wiiK 

 the old over populated and cheap producing nations of 

 Europe, butof diversifying our agricultural and man- 

 ufacturing productions in order to build up a home 

 trade, which alone can guarantee to the farmer and 

 manufacturer a remuneration for their labor, secure 

 from without. But I am oware that there are many 

 readers of your paper, who still "sigh for the leeks 

 and onions of Egypt," I therefore conclude with the 

 Scriptural quotation, " Ephraim has joined himself to 

 idols, let him alone." S. W. 



Waterloo, Julij 10, 1841. 



Rcmarlis. — It is agreeable to our feelings (and we 

 believe it is in accordonce with the wishis of the ma- 

 jority of our readers,) that a small space in the Farm- 

 er should be devoted to the discussion of important 

 subjects not strictly agricultural, (nor parly political) 

 but we hope our correspondents who write on these 

 subjects will study brevity and perspicuily; and al- 

 ways aim at the elucidation of truth — remembering 

 that discussion does not mean controversy. — Eds. 



Practical Remarks ou the Silk Cultnre. 



To the Editors of the Xeie Genesee farmer: 



It was with pleasure I noticed in your last publica 

 lion your determination to devote more space in your 

 valuable paper to communications on the subject of 

 the Silk culture. I hope the day is not distant when 

 a pnper devoted exclusively to that subject will find 

 ample support in this western section of the State. I 

 have no ifesire ro occupy any porlion of your paper 

 unprofiiobly ; but the interest I feel in the success 

 and permanent esiablishnient of that business, has in- 

 duced me to trouble you with a few remarks address- 

 ed to the Farmers of this section of the State, with a 

 view of inducing them lo make a fair trial — beginning 

 small, and increasing as their knowledge and stock 

 increases. 



I have no desire to efTect that purpose by exagger- 

 ated statements, and shall state nothing but what is 

 founded on facts, in my own experience, or that of 

 others wiihin my knowledge. I make my slalemcnt 

 of what can be done by what I know has been done. 



I know that any farmer con commence oi a very 

 trifling expence. He can procure 500 Morus iMulti- 

 caulis trees lor little or nothing. He can plant t'eeni, 

 root and branch, in a small 8|>oi rjf good land, in the 



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