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sixteen weeks, the Becond hatching in fourteen days 

 after the first, and then in ten days, and thru onee in 

 eight days, until there is ten hatchings, which at thai 

 rate will make two thousand and eighty pounds of 



soons, and two hundred and sixty pounds <>t' reeled 



silk, which, at the lowesl price that Mr. Cobb has sold 

 his for, $4.50 per pound, amounts to $1,170, or selling 

 the roc .mis at 4<» cents the price at Philadelphia, they 

 would amount to $832 ; or say 'Jo cents, the lowesl 

 price offered anywhere, they amount to $520. Then, 

 allowing the mistress $20 per month, and the board oi 

 the twenty four scholars for sixteen weeks, each at $] 

 per week, it amounts to $404, which, deducted from 

 $520*, there remains $ -">G ; which allowing three acres oi 

 land and the trees to cosl $600, the $56 will pay the 

 interesl of the money and $"_'<> left to pay interesl for 

 two Bheds which will be wanted it' the silk is reeled; 

 thus yon have the children schooled and boarded 

 without any expense to their parents or the town, and 

 interesl on the capital in the bargain. What more do 



you want, but faith and resolution." 



The author recurs to his estimates of profits again 

 and again. "Now, let a young man of 21 years 

 of age, of Bteady habits," he advices, "purchase Buch 

 an establishment, and mortgage it fop security of 

 the payment, and get it insured against tire and other 



CaSUalitie8, ami put the leave8 Out on share-, and work 



himself at some mechanical or agricultural employment, 



he would at the expiration of twenty years, if a teni- 



perate man. undoubtedly acquire double the property 

 which the greater number of professional men attain 

 to. who must have a large sum expended upon them 

 pi'\ mil- to commencing business." 



