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as soon as they reached Seetapore, but I retarded the hatching as much 

 as possible until the middle of February, when fresh leaves were pro- 

 curable. By the beginning of March almost all were hatched, and only 

 about a thousand eggs left. The worms throve well, and the cocoons 

 produced were, on the average, equal to those so highly reported on by 

 Mr. Tarnbull last year. 



" The Cashmere eggs did not begin to hatch until March, and have 

 hatched very irregularly ; at the present time at least 30 per cent, remain 

 unhatched, though two or three worms come out daily. The worms 

 have not been quite so healthy as the other varieties, but the cocoons 

 have generally been very superior and slightly heavier than the Lahore 

 cocoons. 



" The eggs saved at Seetapore last season have, like the Cashmere 

 ones, been irregular in hatching, and about 25 per cent, are still un- 

 hatched. The worms, however, have been pretty healthy, and have 

 produced good cocoons, which are as heavy as the Cashmere ones. All 

 the cocoons spun after the middle of April are inferior to those spun 

 before, but the falling off has not been so great as it was last year, and 

 the cocoons produced even now, will, I believe, be found to yield a very 

 good quality of silk. 



" Since the middle of February, there has been a plentiful supply of 

 mulberry procurable, and the worms have been fed both from the leaves 

 of the shrubs planted in the Public Garden last season, and from the 

 trees growing about the station. The leaves of the Mortis multicaulis 

 growing in the garden are much the finest and largest, and the worms 

 relish them much. Besides the men taught to rear silkworms in Seeta- 

 pore, men from Oel, Biswah, Mahoomdavad, Hurdui, Fyzabad, and 

 Aurungabad, have been taught. 



" The Rajah of Oel asked for eggs, and succeeded in rearing some 

 very good cocoons. He sent me six hundred to be reeled off, and asked 

 for more worms. Mr. Lindsay sent a small quantity of cocoons from 

 Hurdui to be reeled off. The silk produced was very superior, especially 

 in colour. Six hundred cocoons from Fyzabad have been reeled with 

 an equally good result. Small quantities of cocoons have been received 

 from Biswah and Mahoomdabad, but they were not so good as the 

 others, apparently they had been under fed. 



" The Bengalee reelers, who arrived on the 7th of May, were not 

 able to commence reeling silk until the 1st of June, owing to the neces- 

 sity of erecting the requisite apparatus. Unfortunately the basins used 

 for reeling which the men brought with them were broken, and those 

 made here to replace them also broke on being used, and it was not till 

 the date above mentioned that the reelers fairly got to work. 



" The silk produced consists of forty-two skeins, weighing three seers 

 and one and a half chittacks. Of this quantity I have packed up thirty 

 skeins, weighing two seers, four chittacks, for transmission to England. 

 This consists of tsn skeins of each of the following kinds : — silk from 



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