June, 1909.J 



559 



Live Stock, 



other crops. The whole should yield 

 leaves sufficient for 6 or 7 broods iu a 

 year, each as large as that referred to 

 above or larger. 



Mr. Tata's Expert recommends that 

 the rearing house should be separate 

 and at a distance from the buildings re- 

 quired for storing cocoons and reeling 

 with the object of avoiding the risk of 

 communicating diseases. The rearing 

 building should be constructed so that 

 light and ventilation are fully secured ; 

 a thatched roof and a verandah being 

 desirable to Keep the day and night 

 temperatures fairly equable. 



Expensive construction is unnecessary. 

 A mud floor does very well. There should 

 be a plinth and, exclusive of verandah, 

 a building 20 ft. by 16 ft. is sufficient. 

 The height to eaves should be 10 ft. The 

 north verandah should be about 10 ft. 

 wide and enclosed to form a room, If 

 well lighted, the moths, as soon as they 

 have laid their eggs, should be examined 

 for disease under the microscope in this 

 room, which should have no direct con- 

 nection with the rearing house. The 

 healthy eggs only should be kept. 



In the rearing house there should be 

 three wooden stands each 5 feet high, 

 3 feet wide, each with three shelves, the 

 lowest shelf should be 18 inches from the 

 floor. These stands should be so placed 

 that there is easy access to each. They 

 are required to support the trays in 

 which the silk-worms are fed. A brood 

 from 600 batches of eggs can be ac- 

 commodated in one tray when first 

 hatched out, but requires about 150 trays 

 when fully grown. 



The detailed cost of the fittings of the 

 rearing house is :— 



Rs. As. 



f . Three racks constructed of wooden 



frame and split bamboo shelves 30 



2. One rack for storing trays, etc. 



(not in use) ... ... 10 



3. One table and plank of wood on 



which the leaves are cut, with 



a long knife ... ... .10 



4. Sharpening stone ... ...2 



5. A set of four sieves each with 



different size of mesh for sift- 

 ing chopped leaves ... 3 



6. 160 skeleton bamboo trays, 3£' x 



2\\ at 4 annas each ... ... 40 



7. 160 mats, at 4 annas each ... 40 



8. 160 nets, £ inch mesh at 3 annas 



each ... ... 30 



9. Four wooden stands for trays at 



time of feeding ... ... 4 



10. 24 cocoon spinning screens (chan- 



drikeis) ... ... 24 o 



11. One Dissecting Microscope, Zeiss 122 



12. Table and almirah in verandah 



room .., ... ... ,25 



The reeling factory should be 90 ft. by 

 20 ft., and contain (a) an office 20ft. by 

 10 ft., in which the records should be 

 kept, also iu which cocoons for seed and 

 bailed silk should be kept ; (6) a room 

 20 ft. by 10 ft. for drying, cleaning and 

 storing cocoons ; (c) a verandah 20 ft. by 

 10ft., common to (a) and (b), can be used 

 for drying cocoons in wet weather ; (d) a 

 room for reeling, etc., 40 ft. by 20ft., 

 partially partitioned longitudinally in 

 the middle On the one side of the parti- 

 tion the basins and reels should be 

 ranged longitudinally ; on the other side, 

 the silk should be tested and re-reeled 

 at one end, and hauked and pressed into 

 bales at the other end ; and (e) a boiler 

 house 20ft. by 20ft., with an arrange- 

 ment for steaming cocoons to kill the 

 pupye. The hand-motive-power should 

 be worked in the boiler house and also 

 the blacksmith and carpentry work 

 done. 



The whole building should be con- 

 structed on a plinth with brick walls, 

 10 ft. high to eaves, with tiled roof. 

 The reeling room should have a paved 

 floor and arrangements for drainage. 

 Mud floors are suitable for the other 

 rooms. 



The office will require ordinary furnish- 

 ings with a vermin proof cupboard for 

 storing seed cocoons. The furnishings 

 are estimated to cost Rs. 50. The store 

 for cocoons should have a large central 

 rack or stand on which in three tiers the 

 cocoons can be stored— 



Rs. As. 



Estimated cost of rack ... 50 



The fittings of the reeling apartment 



at Bangalore cost for 10 reelers as 



under :— 



Rs. As. 



10 Boiling basins ... 12 8 



10 Reeling basins ... 20 



10 Water cups ... ... 5 



1 Reeling table, 20' x 2| x i ... 90 



10 Brass water taps 23 



10 Steam regulators with couplings 63 



2 Brass bill corks 5 



10 Reeling machines on platforms") 



with 80 reels [ 843 



4 Reeling machines and 16 reels ) 

 Apparatus for baling and testing 



silk ... ... 100 



Small appliances ... 20 



Packing and freight charges from 



Japan ... 250 



Rs. 1,431 8 

 A Cornish boiler, 7f x 2£, with fire 

 box fittings and chimney and 

 freight charges from Madras ... 1,265 

 Erection of boiler and setting up 

 machinery in working order with 

 carpenter's and blacksmith's 

 tools, etc., for repairs ... 645 



Total Rs. 340 



Rs. 1,910 



