360 
APPENDIX. 
1814 . Expenses incurred. 
Milan liv. 
Sons: ' 
Five ounces of silk-worms’ eggs 
15 
0 
Fuel wood for hatching them 
82 30 lbs. of leaves, at 4 livres, 13 sous, and 6 
1 
15 
decimes, the 100 pounds or quintal 
385 
0 
Expense of gathering the leaves 
Shavings, large and small fire-wood, 15 quintals. 
96 
5 
at 1 liv. 4 sous the quintal .... 
Fagots and broom to form the hedge for the 
16 
0 
worms to rise on, in addition to those of the 
preceding year, 1813 
4 
10 
Paper, in addition to that of preceding year 
4 
0 
Oil for lamps ....... 
9 
0 
Fumigating bottle ...... 
1 
10 
For day-labour, men and women 
109 
0 
Total 
642 
0 
Ground-rent and interest of capital employed . 
90 
0 
0 
7^2 M. liv. 
€01 lbs. 1 oz. of cocoons were drawn from the 
laboratory, which sold at 52 sous per lb., and 
produced ....... 
1563 
IS 
Net profit 
831 
18 sous 
The result of this calculation is, that the tenant 
always derives a positive advantage or gain for labour 
alone : this profit was exceedingly great this year, for 
those who managed silk-worms well. 
By what I have stated, it is easy to perceive that 
the tenant only furnished a sum of the value of about 
200 francs in labour, and about 50 francs in money 
expended, including the price of half the eggs. If 
tliis expense is compared with the profit, the result 
