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(K.) to other less exhausting crops for two years, when 

 ^SdentT it may be planted with mulberry again. 

 Commercoiiy. Mulberry I planted last year round my house 

 was cut this year on the 10th March, height two 

 feet six inches and three feet ; and again cut on 

 the 10th May, height three feet and three feet six 

 inches ; and it is now two feet and two feet six 

 inches high. 



On the 30th April 1832 I sowed some mulberry- 

 seed, which came up on the 20th May, and was 

 one foot six inches high and fit for cutting by the 

 25th August. The leaves of this mulberry are 

 preferred by the rearers of cocoons. 



The mulberry is never permitted to grow into 

 trees in this part of the country, though I have 

 tried it, and it will grow into a tree upwards of ten 

 or twelve feet high ; but the Avood is liable to be 

 attacked with worms, and the tree soon decays. I 

 should consider this mode of cultivating mulberry 

 very expensive and ruinous to the chassars. 



When the silk-worm is first hatched, it feeds on 

 young mulberry-leaves, and as it grows stronger, 

 leaves of an older growth are given it to feed on. 



EMract Letter from J. W. Grant, Esq., Resident 

 at Hurripaul, 5th April 1833. 



■^Res'dent" There are two varieties of the mulberry here : 

 yTpriUsss of which, the dessy, is generally cultivated for 



feeding 



