208 THE MOPERN HISTOHV 01' SILK. 



to be contented with the rate fixed at the royal 

 establishments, where he receives from thirty kreut- 

 zers to a gilder for a pfund of cocoons, according to 

 tlie state in which they are brought. 



In the year 1810, theRitter VonHeinth instituted 

 trials in the Banat military frontier, under the coun- 

 tenance of government, with a view to naturalize 

 the Silkworm in the open air; and the following 

 account, written by one who bore part in theee 

 attempts, will be read with interest : — 



" In pursuance of the orders of the commandant- 

 general, of 27th June 1810, by which the agricul- 

 tural officers of this district were required to make 

 experiments, under the direction of the Ritter Von 

 Heinth, with a view to accustom the Silkworm to 

 the climate of the country, trials were actually made 

 during the last spring in the following places : — At 

 Porlasvaros, with one loth (half ounce) of eggs ; at 

 Thomashcvaez, with one half loth ; at Oppova, with 

 one loth ; at Glogon, with one loth; at Jerkovaez, 

 with one half loth ; at Alibunar, with one loth ; 

 at Kubin, with one half loth ; at Grebonsicz, with 

 one half loth ; at Isbistie, with one half loth ; at 

 Neudorf, with one half loth ; at Tanscova, with 

 several loths, both on single trees, and in the mul- 

 berry plantations. 



" The weather proving fine, the eggs, at the end 

 of April and the beginning of May, were fastened 

 in boxes secured with a cover upon the trees, and 



