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RAW-SILK. 



(E.) accompanied with heavy showers of hail, the 

 Silk Cocoons cocoons are bad and very few. The April bund 



of Bengal. ^ 



and the June and July bunds are not to be de- 

 pended upon ; they are sometimes productive, but 

 generally very defective ; the produce both bad 

 and very small. The largest quantity of silk ever 

 produced in any one year at this filature, amounted 

 to 1,664 maunds. 



Cossi7?ibuzar. 



The Resident at Cossimbuzar writes as follows : 



The November bund in this aurung is the largest 

 of the year, capable of producing in a favourable 

 season from four to five lacs of rupees in cocoons. 



In speaking of the dessee-worm of the March 

 bund, the Resident observes, that the quality of 

 the latter is about upon a par with that of the 

 November bund, and that he calculates on a fa- 

 vourable season, that between the two sorts 

 (annual and dessee) three lacs of rupees might be 

 supplied from this bund. 



With respect to their relative degrees of value, 

 I am of opinion (the Resident observes) that the 

 annual worm is as far superior to the dessee, as the 

 latter is to the mixed breed of the dessee and 

 China insect, the produce of the April and July 

 bunds in this aurung. 



In the April and July bunds at Cossimbuzar 

 there appears an intermixture of the dessee cocoons 

 with what is termed by the Resident the China 



insect, 



