EXPOSITION OP 1867. 
887 
Chinese Empire. 
Japanese Empire. 
India. .. 
Persia. 
Island of Asia Minor... 
Syria. 
Turkistan (in China)... 
Turkistan (independent, in Asia). 
Coreaii Archipelago. 
Total value of product in Asia.• 
France. 
Italy... 
Turkey in Europe... 
Spain and Portugal. 
Pontifical ir^tates. 
Greece, Ionian Islands. 
Basin of the Danube, Austria, Bavaria, Servio, 
Hungary. 
Total value of product in Europe. 
Mediterranean coast of Africa. 
America. 
Oceanica... 
$81,200,000 
17,000,000 
24,000,000 
6,000,000 
6,200,000 
1 800,000 
400,000 
400,000 
100,000 
$25,000,000 
39,200,000 
7,000,000 
3,200,000 
1,300,000 
840,000 
1,280,000 
$135,100,000 
$77,820,000 
300,000 
80,000 
120,000 
Total value of raw silk produced in the world. $213,420,000 
The favorable climatic conditions offered for the production 
of silk by many portions of this country warrant the belief' 
^hat the day is not far distant when the culture of the silk¬ 
worm will constitute an important branch of American hus- - 
bandry. Indeed, nearly all the experiments made in this, 
country, especially in the Southern States, were entirely suc¬ 
cessful; and but for the morus multicaulis which, im-- 
mediately upon the discovery of the adaptability of the* busi¬ 
ness to nearly every section of the United States, spread^ like 
an epidemic everywhere, and brought a fatal reaction,, the pro- 
duction of silk w^ould have been an established branch of our 
industry long since. 
Quite recently, much attention has been given tO' this mat- - 
ter in California, whose warm and dry climate seems particu¬ 
larly adapted to the culture of the worm, and the production 
of a good quality of silk. Already a considerable capital has 
been invested in the enterprise of planting the trees and erect-- 
ing suitable establishments for working up the raw material. 
But last year, certain parties at Santa Barbara, possessed of 
ten thousand mulberry trees in a flourishing condition, pro¬ 
duced three hundred thousand cocoons of excellent quality; 
while, at San Jose, a large factory provided with all requisite 
