Show ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF or SILK CUL 11 it rt la is ah R n inte historical fatt that although though the rearing of 0 nad tad tile the ua urt Ta raveling of the thread from roia leiota to ba be man apanu l fractured into articles of dres drek furst rac chinese tha thi ortolo branch of industry being dute dutt to who lyl ill bith bit year first finst in haning having the eess e j brought brou jy to mulberry I 1 trees rees were planted canted and ind every attention attentions j b ii towed on the t rearing of the insects in a subsequent reign we are informed by gibbon that such was the progress made that clina silk wab waa successfully success fudy competed with by the new industry spreading into greece it did not extend farther till the century when on the sacking backing of corinth and athens by the king I 1 of sicily it was introduced into italy and from thence in the latter part of the century the rearing of silkworms bilk silk worms waa was first prosecuted in the south bouth of france there it was waa deemed of such importance by henry IV that be rewarded persons who had bad been engaged ga ed in the manufacture of silk tor for twelve years with patents of nobility the value of silk at rome in julius cassara time was wag that of gold a pound of being worth the same game weight of the precious metal justin jastin ians labor wab was not in vain as europe Euro has hag since realized its advantages and it is now a remarkable but for turkish economists a gratifying fact that at the present day the I 1 district of bronga occupies the fore foremost most moat rank for tor the production of this valuable filament fila merit levant herald CHINESE agricultural implements the agricultural tools of the chinese are very ver y alm bim slim aim ipe pie they have a plough of very primitive construction but aa as nearly all th III ir land is worked by hand handshey they usa use more the spade boe hoe and rake they have not so much use for laborsaving labor baving saving machines aa as we have for thein heir farms are small and ahe hire cr f it a farm hand is 16 very low but with their simple tools they keep their farms well in order indeed their farms tanas being betas BO so alce alee and well cultivated cultivate dx might be property properly called gardens the only kind of tools resembling our machines ure are are there often very ingeniously constructed but alway always very svery simple i ments menta fr for irrigation of their fields they have diff rent kinds of binds pumps ump in common with us hs or perhaps all kinds in in use ase in this ibis country even many kinds of chain il pumps taps that are patented in amerl ameri ca as the invention of 0 some bomb yankee not excepted cep ted there ia is a model mode of a chinese pump I 1 iri in the agricultural museum precisely like the tile chain pumps used in this country As with ua us they use often some lever with a bucket bucke tit at one end a swipe to raise the water out of wells or rivers or they have wa ter wheels which being set in motion molin by the current draw by means j of small vessels fixed I 1 to their periphery the water waler tostine to soine some gutter in which it runs directly directly y to the fields or to canals canata which often on lo 10 long iong ng ways bring it to distant hillsides hill sides at som oom bome some e place down the river so they have made their land lano very productive in some parts south it bearg bears crops without hardly any interruption and has bag done BO so tor for or hulid build hundreds reds and thousands of years yeara without any detriment to its productiveness indeed they have to work ork much but everything brought into account not more than we for it takes more work to raise a clep crep on the surface of ea eighty acres than goodcup faed cultivation ti would ouid well wll grow en on eight |