Show 1 tim i SI id AND A aw NEWS 1 poli 0 tui Tai imal L ON tin TIU lla lia IfT AT plonie aseiw AtE IW ASA aie xie T I 1 I 1 I 1 f aho ahe 1 rhe tho of taking a buggy ride tlde behind a aquiak quick stepping horse over the tenth ward bench berch and of viewing the beauties of the garden city ot of the from that altitude Is not nol llie lile one oue to be by any ina lna mears means despised this hot weather sho bho so fco wh when e S mr ir 1 L D young inquired last evening if a re would like to accompany him jus for the tiie sake of the ride to the home of an amateur silk raiser who lives out ont near the asylum there w i as a general response that any one of the news staff would be only too happy and his invitation to take a seat beat III in nis his buggy vas was Yas on the part of one of the 1 corps promptly and grated gratefully ully accepted ce ted I 1 1 I 1 am interested in seeing the silk industry flourish sald said sa ld i mr nir young soung as we spun lightly along and I 1 firmly believe that my fathers oft expressed hopes and predictions concerning concer nim it will be fully realized You tou Youre toure remember mem ber how we used to go tu to the forest earm farm in suwar sugar house ward War devery every eveny summer and pla pick mulberry leaves for the worms that father had there I 1 I 1 yes tile the reporter did remember it for in the blissful days of his youth he ile often was one of a party who looked upon such a days da s labor enlivened c ivene as it t always was bythe by b the e presence of the sweet girls who knesh W to pack up a nice picnic asal asai aa almost st a foretaste ot heaven well the trouble with the worms then was that just ton on reaching the lif ili fifth th in moult I 1 ing g or final stage stam when they ought to have ave cominek commenced d spinning large numbers of them weakened and died now this man whom we are going to visit by the bye he is a countryman of yours and ils lis is named is having better success and I 1 am watching his endeavor interest feeling that theesta the establishment of such an industry will I 1 furnish not only employment but wealth to hundreds jhb in the present r depressed state of business have eave 11 le only the gloo gloomiest prospects of acquiring a position where rethey they can make a living I 1 am perhaps enthusiastic in this matter but here he gave the I 1 roan filly a tap with tile tiie whip wit with h a climate like ours warm dry and equable with plenty oi of labor waiting to be employed and with the fact already demonstrated that slik dilk can be raised aud and eliat profitably why there may be some cause for enthusiasm A ride rider of three quarters quartets of an hour brought us to the gate of a 20 acre farm belo beio belonging ing to mr paul hettler yc a gentleman whose name has always been prominently coupled with serl sericulture culture in this community driving across a patch of snort short thin barley aud and alon aion along a mulberry grove the trees of bf which the reporter noticed were small blit bat quite bushy busby the hou house seand and aud it its ummer kitchen in the large tent were soon reached reach td carp the r lady of the house a bluxom bavarian frau who alth heri her husband left her offid home in munich fifteen lif teen years year ago came edme ta athe the door with her arms full of mulberry twigs and her face full of smiles smiled and aud cordially invited us in while awaiting the arrival arria al of the good lood maw mau tile the re porter himself in watching the emente been madi ad forthe of the busy spinners pretty good hood one ono ofa oft two U nad had ad beeh been to tb the good natured family having taken uy up their melr abode la in the tent which was pitched pitcher hard by tile the incessant crackling and clicking accod accompanying anding the working of the worms and ant the drying of the leaves 1 eaves proceeded from some GO 60 1 raines frames on each of which were located about two thousand crawlers the supplying of therewith these with leaves keeps beeps the thel amily family pretty busya or frau vogel says they require fresh provender seven or eight times a day their appetites being being most voracious khe rhe che proprietor fictor of the place in an industrious dust rious shrew shrewd looking little german who works during the day in a city cit onice office and amuses himself in his overtime with watching and waiting for the expected addition to his bis income which the worms ate to bring reached home dusty and warm but in in an excellent temper shortly after our arrival in answer to the reporters questions I 1 he stated that mr suggested the idea of trying the business with a view to makins some use of tile the colony of mulberry trees which the farm supports and he procured the necessary eggs from philadelphia live ounces with which business was commenced these cost 1 4 a ounce and are evidently a french variety though the only ou lylabel label on the tite box in which they canie canle reads var yellow with some of these he commenced on decoration D day and on the ath of june noticed tay the c t tiny iny worms hatching out from that date until the first worms be began bean an spin spinning nin their co cocoons coons a period of thirty six days claps edThe tive five ounces ot of eggs are calculated to produce worms only a little over half of which hicl hiel holever ho however vever a are r e working w or ng at present ei it ti the 1 a accommodations ma datlo s be being insufficient t sufficient 1 forth for fon the whole umber number abonce at once the thee thed worms are hearty feeders and eat ead continuously up to the time the they y reach the last stage said herr 11 II and it keeps my family busy 1 I ilal ilai nave have e only eight children chi idren in supplying sup bup plying them we feed the last tinie time about midnight and to bed about one inthe in the morn in ing at four we are at it amill again and f feed ed them at intervals during darlig i the day as fast as they need it 1 how do you account for tile the healthy condi condl condition tion tiou of your worms at the spinning sp irmina inc lne and apparently critical beriou while those belonging 1 l to president young used to die in such sueh large numbers 1 asked the news man 1 I think there are several reasons first the bench land fand atmosphere is dry and more healthy second the leaves I 1 dry and do not dampen them at all as I 1 hear used to ue be done atthe althe at the forest farin farrr I 1 tind lind the thel keep livelier and eat them better for I 1 have havo tried both ways and believe that the quality of the silk is stronger and better third I 1 21 am in convinced that the leaves of trees whose roots reach the tiie surface water and which grow in marshy ground are not so good although more juicy than those eliose which grow in drier soil this is the finest country for silk culture cult tire lu iu the world continued he wa up to the theme and just as good quality can be raised as in italy china or anywhere elsei the conditions are all favorable and I 1 believe with a little encouragement and patience the industry will become an all important one 1 I notice that you trim your trees down Is that a better butter way than letting them grow lar large langeli geis gehi gelI I 1 res ves yes the trees in st really be shrubs then they be become commie coffie bushy bushland bush yand kand land can eari be easily worked and attended to and antl that reminds me I 1 have been expert meli mell melitina ting a little this neason season with vita yita putting the worms right out on the trees and these cocoons cocco ns showing three nice mee large ones are the result I 1 put about twenty worms while they were still very small out on that little tree there which you yon sects fully expose 4 to the wind ivind and weather my turkey gobbler I 1 think is the agency which I 1 have to thank for reducing the twenty worms to the three ethree which lived long enough to spin but next year I 1 am going to select about a hundred trees and wil wll cover the them with little worms which of course can be removed as soon as they have stripped one ono tree to a fresh one I 1 shall have to protect them by a covering erin of mosquito bar but even that outlay will be easily repaid la in tile tiie saving tv ot of work which this plan pian will bring about have billave you had any exper experience leuce ill in the old country in these matters very little I 1 have been some in italy and know something of tile the french methods boutwe but we that is I 1 my n v wife and children and I 1 consider ourselves merely amateurs gaining gainin most of our information from books and from our short experience do you yon intend to sell the cocoons or ok will you let the chrysalides eat their way out in order to lay eggs 1 I think perhaps the latter would be the better plan financially speaking though I 1 expect to sell cocoons as well weli I 1 each I 1 female moth that comes out lays about ygo yoo eggs so you can call easily calculate for yourself how hovy well the business will pay if it succeeds and Is properly managed at tuny tiny rate I 1 am satisfied with the pros prospect act though it entails a good deal of rard hard work 19 mr has shown that he is not afraid of that andice will in al all ali I 1 probability bewell be well weli repaid forit for fon it lils his success and experience will be an incentive to others to engage in the business and as the vehicle secie bounced down the dusty road the pr prophetic 0 eye of the reporter bedfield beheld the smiling not only a choice spot flowing wit with milk and honey but adorned as well with silks purples and fine linen of it own manufacture |