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any way. and prove it. to the satisfaction of the I. 

 lature or Agricultural Society, I think he would merit 

 a great reward. But this business may be particularly 

 recommended to overseers of the poor in every town, 

 who have a farm — and every town ought to have on, — 

 t" keep their paupers; tor if one-half their paupers 

 an- able to gather Leaves anil feed the worms five weeks, 

 tins business would support all of them a year, exclu- 

 sive of the cost of an overseer. Permit me to suggest 

 <>n.- consideration more,— if all the highways in country 

 towns were ornamented with a row of mulberry trees, 

 on each Bide, halt' a rod apart, each mile would con- 

 taiu 1380 trees, the income of which, after seven 

 years, would probably pay for repairing all the high- 

 ways and the expenses of the public schools, it' the 

 inhabitants would restrain their cattle and sheep from 

 going at large. There is another method of producing 

 silk from mulberry trees, one year afire transplanting 

 them; which is, to plant them in rows •'; feet by 

 •_' apart, which would give aboul 7000 to an acre and 

 every other year with a sharp instrument to cu1 them 

 off within three <>r four inches of the ground, and 

 feed them out or cut <>tr everj year. But whether this 

 method will produce as much or more silk than to 

 omit picking thr leaves tot- seven years, I have not 

 obtained information sufficient t<> decide. 



"I further remark, that thr education of youth i- 

 <>t' thr utmost importance t<» thr public. Maj 1 I"- 

 permitted t<» address thr inhabitants of ,\,yy school 

 district, that they would Beriouslj and without delay, 

 consider the importance of connecting thr .silk business 

 with summer schools, bj procuring two or three acres 

 <>f suitable land near each school house, and have 



