Show aho sille industry iu ur j to most of the children of the pros nt generation in massachusetts a lilac cocom would la A noval ight but there are many older OM who remember tho numerous farmers awl several enterprising clergymen throughout alie slate had a fcc houses or barns sometimes in trusted to the and children of alio tiu nily or although at the beginning of thia benr lury the silk cullu roin thia country had almost out yai efforts were undo to revive it for two hundred and fifty years tins branch of industry has a foothold in through a series of periodic il and enthusiastic revival each of which ha baen followed by a re active failure hucl a revival took komu fifty yoa a ago it extended over all tha eastern and middle states congress even casau acted by iland appointed a commil teo lo 10 report an uie cu aliro of the mulberry with reference to the ilk massachusetts took fire its legislature in 1831 appropriated tor the publication and diseri on bilk which was prepared pro pAred by jonathan II 11 cobb was one ot the moil earnest silk in the stale we arc reminded of the en of the author of the virginia sil k worm alien we read in the report of the committee that alicy were famished fati sHed beyond a doubt that we have power o produce arid manufacture silk in this commonwealth mon wealth to an immense extent and that difficulty i to be tore I either from toil or climate cli male the argument for the cultivation of silk was cil forced by the alarming fact that about this time the export of tle was only about one half the value of the bilk imported silk culture soon cok alie form of a feverish feve peculation and grew into a surprisingly largo bubble this inflation was brought about through the purported discovery that the multi caulis or many branched mulberry was the best of nil trew for bilk worms an intense rage lor this tree sprang up the ex prices were de mande dr brockitt tells us in his centennial history of the silk trade that young trees or outlines came to be twenty five fifty one hundred two hundred and even five hundred dollars a numbers were imported from france but suddenly in 1839 the buhbe buist not a few nursery men were utterly ruined and the next spring mulli caulis treba were offered in vain to he neighboring farmers at a dollar a hundred for acia broili this of lie industry lift never recovered from that disaster and to day boere acs sik in all the united than there was in georgia one li undred and twenty years igo the result of many experiments in silk culture in una country tw been to prove that as fine a of bilk can ha raised in the united states as in any part of the world but it has also as positively proven thit be raised here nd a cheaply is alio raw silk can he imported from china and japak it may ha done in ultimate america but with the present relations of labor and capital it can not easily ba done now silk raising must preferably bo confined lo 10 countries where there ii a dense population in the feeding solon it requires an immense amount of labor which comes all at once to give wage for feeding worms anything like lie wages that are aken for work in our am bould not pay any more than it would to t men to feeding chickens wherever tho experiment peri ment of raisin fi silkworms silk worms on a large scale has been tried it ha failed they arc too liable to get they do better in holsted communities or families the only way in which silk jiin can be carried on without loss in this country is for each alier the climate will permit to diio a moderate quantity of cocoon yearly sending thorn to iorge fUd turM where they may bo reeled yeara ajari beung rs done in the family where the wa raised it ia now jy a separate branch of tho business even in china and apan this has come to 10 the c i the largo fil with improved doing the work belter alian it could be done at hems |