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latter pnrt of April or 1st of May ; from ilio leaves of 

 iheso his wife or children can feed 10,000 worms. 

 The cgijs may be piirchnscd for ten shillings, lis 

 can in n (ew minutes erect shelves in a room of his 

 house, barn, or any out house, lo feed his wormi on ; 

 if well attended, they will produce throe liuehela of 

 cocoons, or n lbs. of reeled sillt. Iln can in the fall 

 take up liiH trees, preserve ihcni through the winter, 

 and plant hali' an acre in the npring. By doing this 

 for three succeesive years, in the spring of tb» founk 

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

 to dispose of. Five acres of trees, wiib proper man- 

 agement, will feed .WOjOOO worms. Thenceforward 

 he will have little or no trouble with his trees; he may 

 leave them in the ground all winter, and th* ne»[ 

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

 000, the year following, double the quantity of the 

 first year, or 1,000,000. 



The following calculations may appear at first sight 

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

 will feed 100,000 worms, with proper management, 

 five acres, with the sams management, will feed 

 500,000. 



1 would here observe that these calculatfona are 

 made without reference to casualties that may happen 

 — such as accident.'', niismanngement, tmfavorabls 

 weather, diseases amongst the worms, &c. Sec, 

 h oiigh I have no doubt of complete srcca^s following 

 constant atlcntior;, careful, good management, proper 

 feeding, anfficient room for the worms, snd s free cir- 

 culation of pure air. From my own experience and 

 observation I am perlecily satisfied it is a busincea 

 worthy the attention of farmers, provided they can 

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

 there can be no reasonable doubt of its complete 

 succcsa. 



I have in the fal1ov.'ing statement valued the co- 

 coons at an average of $3,ri0 per bushel. The Stats 

 bounty of 1 J cents per lb. will make thorn worth $5. 

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

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

 by adding the Slate bounty on reeled silk, fifty cents 

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

 per lb. 



Htateme ni of the product nf 500 <;c&» planted th* 



riEST TEAR. 



10,000 worms producing 3 bush, cocoons at 



$.5 per bush $15 00 



Expence of 10,000 eggs 1 25 



Profit $13 75 



SECOSD VEAB. 



50,000 worms, 15 bush, cocoons, at $5.... $75 09 



THIKD yXAR. 



200,000 worms, 60 bush, cocoons, at $5... $S00 01 

 Expeaces, say 50 00 



Profit $25J 00 



FOURTH TKAR. 



500.000 worms, 1,50 bush, cocoor.s. at §5.. $750 00 

 20,000 trees for sale, at $1 per 100 200 00 



(The State bounty ends this year.) $950 00 



Expenses, say 150 00 



Profit §800 00 



FIFTH lEAH. 



5Bcres, the second year in the ground, 7.50,- 



000 worms, 225 bush, cocoons, at $3 50, $785 50 

 Expenses, say 200 00 



Profit $585 50 



SIXTH TF,An. 



5 acres, the 3rd year, 1,000,000 lyorms, 300 



bush, cocoons at .f3 50 $10.50 00 



Expences, soy 250 00 



Profit $800 00 



The floss and cocoons which have been spoiled for 

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

 manu'acturcd into cloth, which will contribute no 

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



.■P.iWwff, fTmeitie fo., Jufij. M*4). 



For the AVif Genetset F«rmer, 



e\y lo ^. R. "W, oil the Corn Laws. 



If. F.MiTous — Your correspondent S. R. W. 

 sd that the lessons of patience oud self de- 

 " W. attempts to "read to farmers" arc 

 (behind the age," It is hardly necessary 

 say that he has not gone back far enough by 

 fatecn hundred years — such lessons are coe- 

 he Gospel Dispensation — they were the les- 

 h Christ taught and Paul pie.iched. 

 ormcr articles on the national tariff, on im- 

 English Corn Laws, &c., I endeovered to 

 irmers with the necessity of depending on 

 icte of their own industry, and living within 

 1 domestic resources, without looking too 

 egislation, or tn aid from without. If 1 have, 

 itistics I have given, succeeded in convinc- 

 lo individual reader of the Farmer, that the 

 igh prices were years of unnatural inflation, 

 nee, debt and ruin ; and that thosubacqucnt 

 low prices has been one of liquidation, re- 

 idustry, economy and consequent pecuniary 

 ion I am well paid for my labors. But as 

 ns of political and domestic economy have 

 nsiances given dissatisfaction lo the readers 

 mer, I had resolved to abandon the subject, 

 !d not row have adverted to it, but lo defend 

 y articles from the strictures of S. R. W. 

 W. felicitates himself on the progress ol 

 ie in England, and its spread in the United 

 He speaks of the landed interest of Eng- 

 atlfish, and regardless of suffering humani- 

 he predicts a much better market for our 

 en the English Corn Lows are repealed. 

 i], as one of the readers of the Farmer, be 

 learn from S R. W. how England is to 

 with her stupendous debt, without the land- 

 t. Who pays the great bulk of ihc taxes 

 ided interest ; who most supports the enor- 

 .le trade of £400,000,000, sterling, but the 

 lereat ; who feeds the people but the landed 



8 Selfish as lltcy are, their selfishness appears 

 iderfully adapted to the wants of the nation, 

 at feeding England from the United States I 

 h ty.five years previous to 1825 all the foreign 

 ■rted into England did not amount to more 

 week's supply. Since that time in 1831, a 

 . very ehort crops, all the groin imported 

 ■ to but twenty-five doys' cnniumption, and 

 t seventh part, or three and a hoK days' supply, 

 i fed from the United States of America. 

 h orn laws were repealed, Europe would sup- 

 1^ Britain with corn at as low prices as it is 

 Agin N. Y., adding the Atlantic freight, if 

 l< ■ ; and the present prices in N. Y. are below 

 ge, and certainly lower than S. R. W. with 

 ved modern notion?, thinks they ought to 

 837 we imported nearly a million of bushels 

 and Rye from German and Russian ports, 

 >i the duty of 25 cents per bushel (an Amer- 

 an English, corn law) wheat would often he 

 into the United States for our own consump- 



W. says that the English corn laws are the 

 ncalculable mieery. There are thousands of 

 ngland with wise heads and pure benevolent 

 ho differ with S. R. W. in opinion. It is 

 even the timeserving Lord John Ruscell is 

 ether sincere in his eulogy of free trade, for 

 y thing but free trade that has made England 

 is. 



introduction of foreign corn should cause the 

 capital now employed in British agriculture 

 f In part withdrawn, what would be the state 

 i3t hdsie trade, wlilcli is gow i\e only (rade ' 



that remunerates the manufacturer and enables him 

 to feed his operatives. Would not the laboring doss- 

 es of England thei^c^cniblc the Irish peasantry, 

 starring in the midst nf plcnlij, for the traitt of that 

 tviplmjmmt which alono can furnish the means to buy? 



S. U. W. pays that " tho intercRt of millions at 

 the iiorlli are nei;lerlcl by our Givernnient," ''while 

 a few hundred thousand at thcsnuth have an accredit 

 ed representative at St. James, watching every move- 

 ment which may affect their favorite exports." It is 

 somewhat illii»eral, if not invidious, in S. R. W. to ac- 

 cuse tho South with nny thing more tinn their due 

 fjuniitttvi of social, and political sins. Tho facta in 

 the case are simply thete : Corn is indigenous in 

 England, but Cotton is not, and besides cotton ia on 

 indispensable article in her mnnufnctures, hence tho 

 duty on our fluur there, and the fne adinission of 

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

 discrimination on the part of England in favor of their 

 great staple, than they are that the Compromiso Law 

 imposes no duly on imported silks and wines. The 

 South was willing to have these articles taxed, but 

 Mr. Cloy preferred placing the duly on such corres- 

 pondent articles as were nianuloctured in the United 

 Slates. Y'ct by admitting silks free, the exports of 

 the south are increased to the maiiifesl prejudice of 

 the nation at large. 



I might extend this communication by dwelling on 

 the importance, not of encouraging a free trade wiih 

 ibo old over populated and cheap producing nations of 

 Europe, but of diversifying our agricultural and man- 

 ufacturing productions in order to build up a home 

 trade, which alone can guarantee to the farmer and 

 manufacturer » remuneration for tlicir labor, secure 

 from without. But 1 am aware that there are many 

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

 and onions of Egypt." I therefore condndo wiib the 

 Scriptural quotation, " Ephraim has joined bimseli to 

 idols, let him alone." S. W. 



Waterloo, July 10, 1811. 



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

 believe it is in accordance with the wishes ol the Bia- 

 jority of our readers,) that a small epoce 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 theee 

 subjects will study brevity and perspicuity; and al- 

 ways aim at the elucidation of truth — remembering 

 thai discussion does not mean coniroccrsy. — Eds. 



Practical Remarks on the Silk Culture. 



To the Editors of the Ncio Genesee Farmer: 



It was with pleasure I noticed in your last publico 

 lion your determination to devote more space in your 

 valuoble paper to communications on the subject of 

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

 a paper devoted exclusively to that subject will find 

 ornple support in this western section of the State. I 

 have no desire ro occupy any portion of your paper 

 unprofiiably ; but the interest I feel in the success 

 and permanent establishment of that business, han in- 

 duced me to trouble you with a few remarks address- 

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

 view of inducing them to make a fair trial — beginning 

 small, and increasing as their knowledge and stock 

 increases. 



1 have no desire to effect that purpose by exagger- 

 ated statements, and shall stale nothing but what is 

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

 others wiihin my knowledge. I moke my stalcment 

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



I know that any farmer can commence at a very 

 trifling expence. He can procure 500 Morns Mulli- 

 caulis trees lor little or nothing. He can plant tbcm, 

 nofrt and brairfli, in a small spot of good fffnti, In llie 



