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perty. Large proprietors, in general, do not attend 
much to the augmentation or amelioration of the pro- 
duction of their possessions. 
4. Annual Increase of Riches which the first general 
Improvement in the Cultivation of Silk-worms would 
introduce into the Nation. 
A country may increase in riches, as a private family 
augments its wealth, in two ways. 
The first, in raising the value of annual production, 
without increasing annual consumption. 
The second, by diminishing annually the ordinary 
consumption, if there is any difficulty in raising the 
value of annual production. 
The first object is obtained by improving national 
industry, and the second is attained by economizing or 
diminishing useless consumption. 
These two modes of augmenting riches shew that the 
increase and decrease of national or private wealth 
depend on the individuals that compose it, and not on 
the nature of the government. It is only the acts of 
administration that have any direct influence on the 
augmentation and diminution of produce, and an- 
nual value of such produce, inasmuch as they can 
encourage or check sale, and consequently encourage 
or check the zeal and labour which those who give 
work or sell would naturally employ. 
I think I can demonstrate that Italy can produce in 
a few years above forty millions of exportable silk. 
And in evidence of this truth I will here place the 
following statement. At this time the quantity of raw, 
