Show long fibre fabre of c authorities and popular works dlf dif fer greatly la in their estimates of the length of the fibre fabre in the cocoon of the domestic silkworm mort morl published statements of the length of this fibre fabre could be cited which range all the way vay from 1100 feet to eleven miles even so good an authority as the britannica BriL annica places it at yards yard a recent measure ments made mada in the division of entomology show that with certain milan ese yellow cocoons raiben in the unit ed states from eggs purchased from france the fabre fibre in length from 88 to 1195 lards forest and stream |