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Show SILK CULTURE. We received on Friday a communication communi-cation from A. M. Musser, Esq., on silk culiure, which the limited space at present at our command precludes giving giv-ing publication to at length. It oSYrs. extracts from a small work on the subject sub-ject by Mr. Iloag, editor of the Pacific liural Press, which demonstrates very plainly how lucrative is the cultivation of si k. From three and a half acres, planti-d with mulberry trees, of the morns multivnilis variety, the trees being on!y two years from the cuttings, and cut d"wn in the tops the previous -winter, so that they did not yield more than half the early foliage they would have done, he fed worms enough to produce $3,519.50 worth of c.ugs and perforated cocoons, at an expense of $472, leaving him a net profit ol $3,447 50. This was a profit, after paying expenses, of nearly $4,000 per acre, aud the time occupied in making it was only two months. Other figures are given, as the re-s re-s lit of actual experiments, showing t at in the cultivation of sik proper a.-h a.-h gh as $2,340 of net profit per acre, p'anted with mulberry trees of the variety named, can be made. The importance of this- branch of' industry isonly beginning to be realized in California, while in Utah comparatively compara-tively little is known concerning it, although al-though much has been done to introduce intro-duce it. It is not a hypothetical success suc-cess even here, for the experiments made, ranging over a number of years, prove ineoutestibly that the climate of this valley is all that could be desired f r growing healthy worms and mulberry mul-berry treesbearing a wealth of foliage to feed them. Less than eighteen months ago a gentleman of many years experience ex-perience in the silk business, aud a meuiberof one oi the heaviest Kuropean siik bouses in China, examined s me specimens of silk made here in the cocoonery of Mr. G. 11). 'Watt, .-poke lu me very u:gueL iciuja ui quality, quali-ty, and gave us the most encouraging as-urances of the finaucid importance the industry might be made to assume in this Territory. We believed thi d. and have he'd the opinion ever since, that there was a mine of wealth in it ii it were intelligently and energetically followed. And it is an industry that can be entered into by the people, without the expenditure of a large amount of means. A small piece of land planted out with mulberry tree.-, a few frames costing comparatively a trifle, a few ounces cf egi;s, and the .-ervie.s of a ch'Id to feed the leaves to the worms, and all that ii necessary i on hand either to produce eggs f ir sale or silk for reeling purpo.-es. As an industry in-dustry it is elean'y, easi'y got at, occupies occu-pies but a limited period in the most ' pleasant sea.-oa of the J ear, and yields a larger return on the outlay than any other that we know of. |
