| Show wm a j v at 1 l S sericulture tune FEEDING THE bonas t BT BY LOUIS A XII I 1 have heretofore omit omitted teci speaking of the number of times worms should be fed during the twenty four hours some say eay eight some say ten and BO so on but I 1 would lay down no absolute rule I 1 but would say keep some fresh treah food constantly within the tha easy reach of them all night and day after the last boulting moul ting the worm worms exhibit an incredible voracity they are then insatiable especially during t the he first forty eight hours to form an accurate idea of their prodigious appetite it may be well to state that a learned agriculturist a well read mari man in sericulture has proved that a worm which has arrived at the fifth age consumes every day six times its own weight and that when the disproportion in size is duly considered si that it eats precisely as much as thirty six horses and he thinks that the same bame proportions portions ro exist from the beginning tar till the end of their lives mra mr de gasparin journal da agriculture A kicul e dec 1848 page dle f you must adapt the artificial feeding as near as you can to their mode of eating ina state of nature on the living livin 9 and growing tree fon for this after all is the great secret of success study to adapt every operation connected with the and the treatment and feeding of the worms as near as you can to their wild nature keep the building clean and sweet let no other smell be perceptible but that of the fresh mulberry leaves raise no dust make no noises move about quietly give them their food carefully indeed let them go through their changes and ana transformations as though in the quiet recesses of their nativo native forests only protecting them from excesses of nature which are to them such auch as exposure to the rays of the midday mid day sun to the storms of wind or rain to flashes of lightning or peals of thunder also aiso from their natural enemies such as birds rats mice mico and ants i in moving the worms from one place to another in order to thin or spread them out never touch or handle the them M while feeding them with leaves when you want to se separate pirate them put on orn ori a few fresh leaves andas and as soon as they are well covered covered with worms take hold of a leaf carefully and lifting it up slowly lay it down on the place to which you wish to remove it the same way when you want to remove all ail the worms from any given place or gapen gaper paper for the purpose of throwing out t the e litter the stems and offal of the worms this should be done at least every other day while feeding on the flat surface with leaves to separate them after they have common oed feeding with branches move the tr branches anches lately put on while the worms or a portion of them adhere to them aud arid when you wish to throw out the litter and offal take hold carefully lift ing up the pen or top portion of it let another person empty off the litter into a basket arback ar back sack rn immediately mediately i after the worms have fully finished boulting moul ting they should all be removed from mom the place oace where the they y have deposited their skin sas these b become e co in e very offensive and injurious to them SPINNING COCOONS when the worm is within four or five days of its spinning spinning has ac acquired its greatest size an and most ravenous appetite and formidable appearance from this time until it begins its cocoon it seems to lose its appetite and diminish in size and weight it also from that time gradually changes its color from a rank greenish to a light pearly yellow and gerie rally raily assumes the appearance of maturity the last three or four hours before going to spinning it becomes in a degree diaphanous and translucent as a white ripening grape it becomes restless and uneasy fre raising its head as if to reach WInIe something thi pg thebe these igns admonish ni onis ai the th 0 keeper to prepare tor for the harvest which if not a golden goiden is certainly a silken harvest at this stage the worm begins to hunt some pice nook or corner oue out of sight in which to wind its body in a silken shroud and the sooner it can find a suitable place to suspend its cocoon mhd thelnore more perfect and complete that cocoon will be made and the more valuable will be the harvest to be gathered hence at is very im that good goda provision be promptly pta supplied worms r rm 9 cariall spin their cocoons many plan plans 46 for t this purpose have been invented the best abst or such as combine the qualities of economy cleanliness and adaptation to the seeming fancy or real wants of the worm should be adopted an any kind of clean bushy twigs can be used usey but ut aromatic shrubs are tot toi be ered after the worm commences the c cocoon it must not in any manner be disturbed and if allowed to proceed unmolested it will finish In int three bree it is a beautiful and interesting sight to th uphold one hundred thousand worms spanning hig fig all at once their cocoons professor fessor bobinet robinet has made the following curious carious calculations when whon is spinning its cocoon it makes a motion of five millimetres milli metres long every second the thread which composes the cocoon havin having g an average length leitah of 3 metres about yards the worm is compelled to make mo eions with its head bead to accomplish its work woric should the cocoon be perfected in 72 hours the worm has made motions every 21 24 hours every hour 69 every minute a little more thail than one every second what a mighty hardworking hard working fellow in from six to eight days after the cocoons are formed they should be gathered and all except those selected for producing eggs mus must t be exposed for ahr three e or four days to the direct rays of the sun to kill the chrysalis w within ith it will will be well to expose them longer so as to be sure to completely dry up or evaporate the fluids or moist substances of the chrysalis otherwise there is danger of injuring the silk by staining it with the putrid matter of the chrysalis bails it is also important that this c chu chrysalis h ails alfs be thoroughly dried to prevent the bad smell that would otherwise be emitted fram the cocoons when stored hway away away and also to prevent their theft heating 11 if you are prepared to reel the cocoons at home homel this work may be now commence commenced dorf arf the cocoons are to be sold they are now ready for markel market but in any event it must be remembered that mice will destroy the cocoons if not kept out of their reach mice are so fond of silkworms that they will destroy them from the eggs to the cocoons PRODUCING EGGS before exposing the cocoons to the exposit ddn if it be desired tosane any tiny eggs ego for the re reproduction of the worms cocoons must ge be selected for this purpose and placed jn any convenient place for hatching tc h I 1 ng out ou the fil othor othon ii miller hIler in order that the size and vigor of the worm may be continued or improved from generation to kene generation ratio n it is important that only the veny very best cocoons should be chosen for foi propagating the species among the most precocious select the largest and most regularly formed this selection must be performed with the most careful attention for all white races purity of color 14 is of the utmost consequence for the yellow cocoons those having a too deep or bright color must be rejected because their threads are generally unequal and loose the shape and external appearance of the cocoons are no reliable evidence of the sexes in a number of cocoons taken at random there are always nearly lyas as many males as females dred pairs of large yellow cocoons which weigh a pound will produce an ounce of e eggs ggs and an ounce of eggs is considered to produce about forty thousand silkworms the white races being generally less heavy require of course a larger number of cocoons to make a pound the following mode is generally adopted in the largest cocoon erles eries of france in order to separate the sexes the female cocoons are weightier than the male ones A certain number of selected cocoons are taken at random and placed in a balance they weigh for instance two hundred grammes about six pounds the average weight Is I 1 therefore two grammes it is almost certain C ertain that all cocoons which weigh abre than two grammes will be females those less weighty will be males FIXATION DF OF etire THE COCOONS 1 now kow it ift is necessary to fix the cocoons The moths would ouid exper experience lence great difficulties to emerge out of their cocoons should they remain free on the shelves upon lupo n sheet sheets soa 0 grey paper lay with a pencil penell 1 I 1 some pome liquid gum arabie arabic c common paste will answer then take coans one by one and a ad dispose chemin rows ald side by side bide in placing the them on thrum ehfe bum gum the rows howg must be separated byan biati interval of an in inch inoh ch in order orden that may find nind no obstruction when wilin its heads commences to come out and also algo that it may reach with its feet the opposite tt iland a nd thus release swell under agod s that thai maie male and ad finial e cocoons A must be pasted upon separate S sheets of paper in closing this chapter I 1 take the opportunity port unity of crediting mr J N hoag of yolo with many valuable statements aad and rules I 1 have found in his I 1 interesting ante resting report on silk culture in california tra transactions 1 ac eions of the california state agricultural kicul ri t 6 ra J society during the year years 1860 and 1867 1807 page 0 IN NEW CITY we WID understand that several deaths occurred in the city during the past week caused by contained in the meat the persons had eaten Itla it is stated that seven of the boarders in a german boarding house in carlista street were taken sick last week and removed to different hospitals that two have since died in the new york york hospital whose flesh as proved on oil the postmortem post mortem examination was filled with trie tri trl hilim chinse which could be plainly seen by the aid of a microscope A piece of flesh was taken from the arm of one of the men while he was alive and in this myriads of them were discovered the keeper of the boarding house I 1 it is said Is in the habit of purchasing hasin hard ard dried beef and pork which ur was probably in an impure state before it was salted and the animalcules animal culm cules were thus swallowed with fatal consequences other deaths from the same cause are said to have occurred in different parts of the city JN Y evening express DEPA DEPARTURE madame scheller scheuer and her husband mr bir mathua started eastward today they have had avery arery a very avory extended stay in salt sait lake lako city and while here have gained gamed many warm personal friends whose good wishes will attend them wherever whenever the they go As an actress If madame adame ranks hig high and when engaged in her professional duties her every act and gesture bespeak the lady of culture virtue and roan reAn refinement ement in private ilfe lifo she is equally estimable mr mathua is a scenic artist of much ability and has used his bis brush with great effect in illustrating many of the pieces that have been played during the engagement of his lady 1 wherever they go we feel assured they will reap golden opinions opinion 4 as artists and d whilo while doing so we trust that fortune will not noi be niggardly niggardly ardly in the bestowal of more moro substantial la I 1 favors fourteenth TH WARD CO STORE A meeting was held in the vara ward vard assembly rooms booms last even eyen evening ing at which a large portion of the male bembers members members of ortho the ward were present elder geo D keaton was chosen secretary of the meeting the ob object eject of the meeting was the tho organization of a ward liw branch of zions cooperative operative co mercantile institution remarks were made mado b by bishop A hoagland elders IV W Woo woodruffs guYS W WR ichards joseph ph home and several others the bisho bishop was voted in as president of the dvaz ward branch of the institution elder W woodruff as vice vlee president joseph woodman see lewis S hills and thomas taylor as a board of directors T C armstrong as secretary and E W east as treasurer A committee of three W I 1 appleby S W richards and H P richards Richarc ls wore appointed to prepare a constitution and in conjunction with the tho board of directors to draw up bylaws by laws for lor the regulation of the institution to present to the next meeting which was appointed to be held at 7 p pm in next tuesday the dinst five dollars was mentioned as the price for a share I 1 but this was not fully decided upon darina DARINO ATTEMPT between four foun and nive five this morning the tho jailer at the court house was aroused by a somewhat unusual noise dolse in or about tho the building upon going in the direction whence the sound proceeded he saw it one of the four gar recently brought from echo making his escape the jailer sent the contents of a pistol after the runaway which wounded him in the leg and brought him to a sudden standstill when he was recaptured nis his hist tt iee i kee ee co companions probably knowing when hey w were ere ene safe did aid not attempt to c escape ta e 1 9 e four foun worthies had torn up ono one I 1 of t the fla stones of the cell in which they were cc esl fined and with a pa piece ece of wood had worked a hole through t the tho 0 foundation large enough for a man to pass thi through ough they are all in safe keeping and its it is presumable that measures will be ta kento prevent the recurrence of a similar ai milar atte attempt mft I 1 MILITARY official reports published in oas bas eastern eastorn terri teril papers mention a great many changes in the location of united states broo troops pg amongst ot other othen her we haye have noticed that the regi negi regiment ent of infantry stationed at various in texas Is ordered to be changed to this territory and that the tho infantry five companies of f which aro are stationed at camp campf do douglas las and five at fort bridger are ordered to texas wo vvo hayo have lear learned nelv neav however that these ehan chan changes es extend to the uhe offie offic officers ers ets only ohly tho the enlisted bat mat as at the tho officers of tho the now kowm texas ww come and take command of 6 the tho troops trog at camp douglas and port fort bridger while the the officers now how ini zina command I 1 at the two latt latter iatter er tako take their commands in temas texas es i i r h b vf kyem 1 I 1 y t LAND ons OIT THE CEU 61 ditcu DITCH T C irmi femi A meeting was held on monday evening last i 71 at atthe thi tho ath nth ward vard schoolhouse oa house according U J to a 3 public notice which had been given to take into consideration the propriety C t lano tano of f protecting a large go amount of valuable hand fand flying lying in the vicinity of the spencer ditch or canal from the inundation of the water though a few days have havo elapsed since the tho meeting was held we give the notice of it space today to day so that those persons interested in the land in that vicinity may know what is expected from them bishop jaho jano A hoac W land laud was called to the chair and bishop w was appointed ap hinted secretary of the ca meeting eating A number of individuals addressed tho the meb meeting tint ting amo among the rest the presiding bishap edwar edward pter hunten hunter I 1 who urged the necessity and propriety of energetic measures being taken to reclaim and preserve the valuable parcels of land lying southwest south west of the city which are now value jess in of their being annu annually alix aily nodded flooded by the waters of the streams running into the spencer ditch that ditch is a good one but there has been more morg water turned into |
