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RAW-SILK. 



(C.) When any of the qualities above described are 



ins^u'ctions spun, at the receiving of them from the hands of 

 ^Raw-slikf spinners, every evening, they should be care- 



fully compared with the samples which had been 

 ordered to be spun that day ; in order to ascertain 

 whether they have kept strictly to the rules pre- 

 scribed. 



The only way to prevent different sizes of silk 

 in one bale, would be not to order at one time two 

 qualities of silk to be spun throughout the whole 

 of the filature, but only one sort. As, for example, 

 November and March bund being the greater crops 

 of the year, the silk at the beginning should be 

 spun of from eighteen to twenty cocoons, which 

 will give time to place the cocoons properly on the 

 shelves and to pick the bad from the good ones. 



N.B. One hundred, or one hundred and ten 

 furnaces or pans, will produce daily one bale of 

 silk of that quality ; but it will require three hun- 

 dred furnaces to produce one bale of five to six 

 cocoon silk. It is therefore of the utmost conse- 

 quence, not to begin to spin fine silk until the 

 cocoonery be full, and the chassars slack in bring- 

 ing their cocoons, when it will be the proper time 

 to order every spinner of the factory to spin fine 

 to the end of the season. 



8. The Residents of the factories should take 

 particular care to cease making the five to six 

 cocoon silk in time, that all of that quality may 

 arrive at the Presidency, and be shipped for Eng. 



land, 



