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These cocoons, which were of an excellent quality, 
sold for 2 francs 55 centimes per pound ; the 180 lbs. 
of cocoons, therefore, produced about 456 francs. 
The property which this tenant holds and manages 
is of tine soil. 
When the value is compared of the sums which the 
tenant must advance in expense and labour to obtain 
the 22 setiers requisite of wheat, the risks he runs 
before he can reap and sell the corn, when all 
this is compared to the labourer’s expense of labour 
alone, which is required to produce 360 lbs. of co- 
coons, the superior advantage of the culture of silk- 
worms will appear most evident. 
The produce of the cocoon is therefore greater to 
the tenant than the production of any other thing he 
cultivates. 
I must not conceal, however, that besides the price 
of' labour, and the salaries which the tenant pays, he 
is liable to some losses and further expenses. 
1. The mulberry trees cast much shade from the 
hedge-rows and in the fields, and injure the crops to 
a certain degree. 
2. The ground is much trodden when the leaf is 
gathered. 
3. He consumes fuel, oil, paper, and loses the in- 
terest of the capital employed in expenses of hurdles, 
wickers, tables, and other trifling utensils. 
These losses again are balanced, 
1. Every year he obtains a great deal of wood from 
the mulberry-trees, in pruning one quarter of them. 
