| Show SILK CCJITCRE I i I j Last year there was imported nearly I 28000000 worth of reeled silk and it is 1 said that if the cocoons which entered I intothis silk had been produced in this country it would have added 50000000 fo itKe1 Incomes of our farmers and f L given employment to 12000 persons to t I operate the machinery necessary to I 1 convert the cocoons into raw silk I Largely through the representations and efforts of ladies interested in serif f ti culture Congress at its last session made an appropriation to enable the Commissioner of Agriculture to conver t < j the cocoons into raw silk The Commissioner Com-missioner is now having set up in Washington I i I Wash-ington six automatic sHk eels which he I t proposes to operate next year Some j 4 itims ngo the Commissioner issued L a circular to cocoonraisers informing I them of the governments readiness top r to-p chase their products The tesult is I that he is now receiving cocoons usually usu-ally in small Iota and some of them are said by the Italian expert in the depart 1 ment to be better than the European average The Commissioner hopes to I be able to demonstrate the jpracticabil f ity of reeling silk economical in the i t J United States and if hesucceeds silk t I culture will assuredly develop into an 1 l important industry ot the country as 1 ytr I At hds Been proven satisfactorily that f I the worms thrive amazingly in most I i 4 parts of the Tnited States Utah has i 4 1 made some progress in sencuhurej but I I 1 lack of means has prevented that degree I de-gree of success which those engaged in r the industry areentitled toby reason of I 1 their enejgy and determination I I |
