Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-06-26 | Page 4 | Where "Catgut" is Made

WHERB "CATGUT" IB MACE. Probably but a small percentage of the fishermen who use file strung with Sne transitu enl "catgut" are aware that the almoet unbreakable substance that holds the hooka agalnat the fiercest atrugglea of tha struck fish cornea from allk worma. The principal center of the manufacture manufac-ture of thla kind of catgut ta the Island of Prorld. In tba hay of Naples but moet of the silk worms employed are ralaed near Torre Annunslata. at the foot of Veeuvlua. The caterpillars are killed juet aa they are about lo begin the eplnnlna; of cocoons, the ell guuids are removed and subjected to a procesa of pickling, which la a secret af the trade, and afterward the threads are carefully drawn out by skilled workers, moelly women. The length of the thread varies from a foot to nearly twenty Inches. Scientific American.