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parison, producing silk of the best thread and (E.) 

 brightest colour. The season for it, however, is ^ol'^Beng 

 only (at least chiefly) during the cold weather and 

 the spring, from November to April; but the 

 bunds are more productive and less uncertain than 

 those of the hot and rainy seasons. About four- 

 fifths of the whole annual produce of the district 

 is of the cocoon. 



Radnagore. 



The dessee cocoon does not appear to generate 

 in the Radnagore district. 



Soonamoohy, 



The dessee cocoons are produced in every bund 

 in the Soonamooky district, and yield silk of a 

 bright yellow colour. The eggs are hatched and 

 formed into cocoons in from fifty-five to sixty days 

 in the November and March bunds, from forty to 

 forty-five days in the October, and from twenty- 

 eight to thirty-two days in the April and June 

 bunds. About three-fourths of the whole produce 

 in the October, November, and March bunds, and 

 one-fourth in the April and June bunds, are of this 

 cocoon. 



At Soonamooky the dessee cocoon yielded in the 

 year 1813 (the year of the largest produce at this 

 filature) 1,040 maunds of silk. 



Baiikah. 



