Show Silk Philadelphia April 18 The second sec-ond annual meeting of the Wom ans Silk Culture Association of the United States was held here this afternoon after-noon Twentytwo yards of brocaded satin intended to be presented to Mrs Garfield for a dress was exhibited for the first time and it was stated that it took fifty pounds of cocoons taking fourteen four-teen pounds of reel silk to make the dress pattern Some silk was also exhibited which had been made from cocoons which the silk worms had been fed upon osage orange This experiment was pronounced pro-nounced a success as three pounds of osage orange cocoons make one pound of reel silk The annual report which was read by the president stated that sufficient suffi-cient had been accomplished to insure the success of the movement that silk has been raised in this country equal if not superior to the best of Italian product pro-duct and that the extent of American silk culture was shown by contributions to the dress of Mrs Garfield representing represent-ing as they do fourteen states |