| Show silk culture for girls every esery sensible mother of limited means as she looks over her family of Inter resting but to some extent helpless girls has doubtless giten often thought what she shall do with them they all deserve or will deserve husbands rich handsome tender and aud t true rue who will devote their lives to make them hap happy y there are not enough of that gintof kind kina of men to go around and it is likely that they will all have to work for a v living or at least help build up a home sending the children away from home homo where they have been loved and petted to do housework in a mushroom family and receive snubs and insults Is like consigning them to eternal punishment besl besides es the he lovine levins and trusting character of their children which is so charming ih the home circle becomes away from home influence a means of ruin this applies to almost any employment sought away from home under these circumstances an any remunerative munera tive industry that will aard afford employment in the family circle vill kiil be welcomed with joy the raising of small fruits such as strawberries raspberries rasp berries and blackberries is pleasant and profitable work but it cannot last the year round silk culture comes the nearest of any industry to flolid tilling up the interstices of other labor wit with a pleasant and profitable employment we say pleasant employment for tor those who have attended silkworms through all ail alith the stages become as fond of the work as a mother does of tending and feeding her children silkworms have been the subject of human care for thousands of years and rely upon the antell intelligence I 1 gence and care of human beings for food and shelter making no effort to obtain it for themselves silk growers say that the worms know them and manifest signs of pleasure when they come into the room by raising their heads und and moving them about with evident marks of pleasure the little darlings I 1 is the term that every woman will apply to them after wa watching t chin them a few days some young 9 girls ir Is will fall in love with them and beg f for fon or or even steal them examined with wit h a micro scope the worms dont get squeamish young youal ladies have a human expression of countenance the growth of the worms from the hatching batching of the eggs to the final en bombing in the cocoons is a matter of intense interest and occurs in the early months of the summer before fruit gathering commences the reeling in of the cocoons can be done at any tiie time within a year or two or they may be sold dir directly estly to the manufactory though the machinery required is small and inexpensive the reeling is Js dexterous manual labor requiring care and expert fingers there lehere are many young ladies in the united states now wearing dresses made of silk of their own raising reeling twisting and weaving they are the very best bat re recommendations of industry and intelligence telli gence and doubtless commend the wearers bearers to the best regards of all young men seeking wives with regard d to engaging in the busl ness the first thing thins of course is to have a mulberry plantation the trees a are re raised from cuttings and grown crown in a hedge form so as to facilitate the picking ng of the leaves an acre ot of mulberries four years old will yield pounds of leaves enough to feed 1000 silkworms which will wiil produce silk worth f from roin 1000 to 2000 if there is a market for eggs which wb ich are worth from iao lao to 2 per ounce the yield will be about the same recently a disease attacked the eggs in europe and eggs had to be shipped from japan several carloads of the eggs which are usually laid on cardboard weighed before forehand and after the eggs are laid on t hem them were lost or damaged aa damaged maged in the transit ane cards being sold for paper stock at other times the cards of eggs passing through a warm climate i hatch out premature lythe little worms escaping from their shells before their feed is grown circumstances like the above often send the price of eggcup eggs up several dollars an ounce there Is little fear of overproduction the annual conof ion lon of silk in the world amounts to there are factories in america using 00 worth of raw silk annually yh the value of the aured products exceed it will be seen that the industry ranks among the first in importance los gatos nail the large business hose holtse of M of moscow has failed liabilities roubles coubles rou bles |
