SILK-WORMS. 
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stable and liberal, as nature Is in bestowing the 
production, and the maxim which ought to 
guide administration should be couched in simple 
terms. 
“ Encourage the cultivation of the production ; 
“ protect exportation; and act so as to secure its 
“ free circulation in all foreign markets, that the 
“ consumption of it may increase abroad.” 
In this manner -would the policy of states 
become connected with the interests of those 
states. 
This maxim should be fundamental in Italy, in 
everything relating to the silk-trade, as by its an- 
nual value, it should be placed immediately after 
our more important production, corn and wine ; 
and it is even of superior value to those as a more 
exportable commodity for foreign markets. 
The value of exportable silk is double the amount 
of any of our other productions. Besides, there is 
not in the European markets any production 
which, compared with its own intrinsic value, offers 
a larger net jn’ofit than that which silk yields. 
By natural value, I understand that which results 
from a combination of values, such as revenue of 
the capital produced by the mulberry-tree, and 
the interest of the advances made for obtaining 
silk, and the amount of all salaries paid. 
Notwithstanding this, it is demonstrated, that 
silk is yet far from having attained its utmost de- 
