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RAW-SILK. 



(E.) 



Silk Cocoons HuvripauL 



of Bengal. 



The same description of cocoons is produced 

 also at the Hurripaul filatures. 



The Resident observes, with respect to this 

 cocoon, that it is the most valuable, and yields 

 the best silk. It is reared only once in a year, 

 and the bund comes in about the middle of March, 

 and continues till May or June. The produce of 

 this cocoon is denominated the March bund; it 

 composes about three-eighths of the quantity of 

 cocoons produced at his filatures. 



Jungypore, 



The Jungypore filatures appear also to produce 

 the annual worm in the January bund. 



The Resident makes the following observation : 

 — " The cultivation of this species of cocoons has, 

 notwithstanding every exertion to improve them, 

 become exceedingly precarious and uncertain of 

 late years. This may, perhaps, be attributable, 

 in some degree, to unfavourable weather ; but 

 from all the information I have been able to 

 gather, I am more inclined to impute the cause 

 to the worm havins^ deocenerated. The whole 

 quantity of this sort of cocoons received in the 

 last January bund, was maunds 551. 32. 12. ; and 

 in the most favourable harvest, I do not think that 

 more than one thousand five hundred maunds 

 could be procured." 



Radnagore. 



