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learnt it can be clone with the coarsest machinery, as will 

 appear from the account given of silk reeling in a work 

 recently received from Europe, entitled — " Twelve Years in 

 China : the People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins." It has 

 been objected that any attempt to introduce the cultiva- 

 tion of silk here will be very expensive, that there is little 

 chance of its succeeding, and that it should be left to 

 private enterprise and not be undertaken by Government. 

 It is forgotten, however, in urging the first objection, that 

 the experiments now recommended are not for the natura- 

 lisation of a foreign worm, but simply for the utilisation of 

 an indigenous species. Signor Mutti's experiments near 

 Poona, in 1838, were for the purpose of introducing the 

 China mulberry and the China worm into this country, 

 and they cost Rs. 2,00,000 and failed utterly. The worm 

 now proposed to be utilised is already naturalised, with its 

 food, and it only has to be protected against the enemies 

 which at present naturally check its increase. Shield it 

 from these, and in all likelihood it will multiply here in 

 unlimitable quantity. But notwithstanding the Satumia 

 Mylitta is indigenous to Western India, and that silk 

 rearing and reeling would in all likelihood become a very 

 popular industry with the natives of this Presidency 

 under ordinary circumstances, it would still be unsafe to 

 predict positively of the results of the experiment I recom- 

 mended last year. Bengal is too far away to afford any 

 argument for anticipating the success of cocoon-rearing 

 here. Fortunately, however, the experiment has been 

 tried at our own doors with every good fortune. From a 

 letter No. 401 of January 1860, received by me, as Secretary 

 of the Agri-Horticultural Society of Western India, from 

 Captain C. P. Maloney, Secretary to the General Committee 

 of the Madras Exhibition of 1859, it appears that the 

 rearing of silkworms, the preparation of raw silk, dyed and 

 undyed, and the manufacture of silk stuffs from the Satur- 

 nia Mylitta, is carried on to a very great extent in the 

 territories of his Highness the Nizam. 



The report on the industry received by the Madras 

 Committee is from Syed Mohdeen Padshah, talookdar of 

 Wurrangal. In the hot season, in the months of Chittur 

 (April) and Visak (May), the Tussah chrysalis is little 

 larger than a pigeon's egg. 



In the season when they gather the flowers of the 

 Mowah (Bassia latifolia) the people search for the Tusseh 

 cocoons in the jungles, and find them on the Blair and 

 Muddi or Arichunmugay (Ayeen) trees. Tying them in 



