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RAW-SILK. 



(L.) objectionable,) and our Secretary, who obligingly 

 B^lrdo'n^e "^^dertook the management of the Howrah filature, 

 20 Aug. 1832.' reported to the Board, under date the 10th May 

 last, that the buildings had been completed at a 

 cost, the particulars of which appear in his note 

 recorded on our proceedings herewith submitted, 

 also the several statements exhibiting the result of 

 the experiments made with a view to ascertain the 

 smallest quantity of wood which would suffice for 

 the manufacture of an equal and given quantity of 

 silk, of the same letter or quality, at each descrip- 

 tion of ghye. They alike exhibited a saving of 

 about seventy per cent, in the article of fuel, as 

 compared with the old standard ghyes, and the 

 other items of charge for manufacture also proved 

 nearly the same at each. Although a very close 

 comparison cannot be made with respect to the 

 general manufacturing charges at all the factories, 

 without an accurate calculation of the quantity of 

 silk of the different letters manufactured at each 

 of the filatures, we nevertheless feel assured that 

 the experiments which have been made, and will 

 continue to be conducted by us in every descrip- 

 tion of silk, until we shall have defrayed by savings 

 the cost of erecting the Howrah filature, will ena- 

 ble us, with a knowledge of the price of fuel and 

 labour at each factory, to institute a narrow check 

 over the charges on this head. 



The advantages of the quad basins, pottery 

 ghyes, and Somerville furnaces, are so warmly ad- 

 vocated 



