RAW-SILK. 



63 



No. 1. 



Extract Letter from the Bengal Board of Trade 

 to the Silk Residents, 2\st March 1813, with re- 

 ference to Paragraphs 17, 18, 19 o/ the Court of 

 Director's Letter, dated the 2d June 1812. 



(G.) 



That mulberry plantations can be established Letter from 



J. f» J 1 • • I Board of Trade 



on account ot the Company, so as m time to to Siik 

 render the public investment in a considerable si MarchTsia. 

 degree independent of other sources of supply 

 for cocoons, is not, we conceive, to be expected, 

 considering that, for the accomplishment of such 

 an end, lands to so great an extent must be cul- 

 tivated, and servants so numerous must be em- 

 ployed, as well as buildings be erected for the 

 rearing of cocoons, comprehending altogether such 

 a field of care and superintendence, as no Resident 

 could be competent to, in addition to the minute 

 and constant attention requisite to the peculiar 

 and important duty of manufacturing silk. Such 

 a plan, even if it were found to be practicable, 

 would, in all probability, from the greatness of 

 the expense attending it, prove decidedly objec- 

 tionable. 



To improve the breed of the silk- worm through- 

 out the districts where they are produced, and 

 also to introduce a superior description of the 

 plant used for their food, or at least to substitute a 



better 



