Show j i the of america re to have open I 1 to them another important and congenial line 0 profitable employment at home as the result 0 recent investigation and experiment on the part ot uncle sam silkworm culture 1 the attractive meana 0 money malting which 1 now to be brought reach 0 any woman with even the roost modest capital and it t certain to prove one of the inter maln home which ha ever been brought within the reach vt women in athla country moreover the work la light not requiring any mcelva physical ex and white the remuneration aada many another home may be very moderate at the there is no leaion why the may not be in eres used by a natural development ot the enterprise secretary anil the of the Dupan ment of agriculture in their con beant in the animal and vegetable world tor which can be introduced into the united states with a view to increasing the wraith and ot our country have loni lieen on the lookout tor eom occupation for american re munera alye t hon they are con vinced that they have ar covered athla in culture all kinds of leave made at the department head in even to the ulo up ot a resl and the ot illic by i doroen operator boon uncle babi to be in a position to apply silkworm eggs to all who ac for them and it I 1 believed that one foothold la gained the wilt thrive apace alio fact that silkworm culture rray be carried on an any ordinary residence and with tha mol expenditure tor would appear to tho claim no fiber enter price lies BO well within th ot the bembera odthe gentler ex who da alre to engage in torae printable pron table without household houe hold duties and in recognition ot this fact the national government haa appointed henrletta alken kelly of charleston e C as iti special agent to arouse the interest of women and foster tile culture 04 national industry for many year past kally hi made a study ot silkworm cul tur both in country and abroad bie will arst prepare tample text bocha which will instruct any woman who may be in ter eted in the cultivation 0 the mulberry tree and the rearing 0 the however tha southern woman hopes ere lone to enlist the good ot undo barn in a etall more pretentious project it 1 her aim to uTU a national colace 0 bilk culture in tho buildings 0 the charlton demale seminary ml kelly la that the united state government cahall ase rent freo for five n iheke are worth quite a number of american women have not walled upon the government cluade in order to take up the attractive ot culture in io I o ancelea the pro fren mada la been par notable and lias resulted in the box fellk culture club an HH clathon ot women which Is among th organization at ho tha caul haa already engaged in missionary work to tha extent of la elsig a boo of instructions and hax thereby enabled anany who would be compelled to engage in clerking or other poorly paid occupations aa well as invalids and elderly woodi to engado in athla light out of doo c employment the los ancelm club hag received from new york alk manufacturer an offer to accept th malor portion of the output 0 all the members at he price individual on the part of have been particularly gratifying one california woman last year raised dilno chopa of cocoon while quite number of her a in eight croan chece fleuren beans rather in comparison with culture in europe where many women carry on the work on a coall and acure but one crop annually nor la lot ancelm tnt only locally loc allt in which 0 roar kable recarda hav been mad tn o work one family of mother and averal couldren ine in the city of untied over ishou worm darlne alk culture la one of the few which once eaines comparative S foothold oot hold on the american wa to lanK Ulab and practically decline industry Indu atry to tle people ara how beloff aroused was carried on autto in athla country over century aro arst of the ht austry la america waa characterized by titan cea somewhat romantic james I 1 of had the Krea teat in work and in ica lie sent to virginia hl favorite colony a areu of bilk worm erbb and treba fand offered lian for colonial afar brief experiment the nit but abandoned the new venture and aram j turned to the cultivation 0 tobacco i in carolina and georgia however the industry thrived in a much greater degree EKES were brought to those colonies from england and for more than a quarter ot a century silk wag exported to I ondon continuously in considerable quantities and the volume finally reached such proportions that a suit reeling mill was established at savannah after tha ar tor independence silkworm culture did not revive in the south but strangely enough it was after tho colonies bad attained their freedom that the industry came to its fullest development in more ernly climes the lone conil lct with great britain served as a blight upon tho activity in all parts ot tho country but whereas in the south after peace wag declared the people made no effort to again develop the promising enterprise in the north there wag much activity on behalf of the infant the middle ol 01 tha eighteenth century found silkworm culture gaining a fu in new york new jersey khoda island and and much was dune by benjamin and other publeo to encourage ahe exien eion ot the scope at the work after aln lne uch a foothold 11 mm ahat BO a line ot work should hava been abandoned but the collapse ot culture iri america at thia time was even more ban ft inception had been it resulted from a speculative fever which frequently fanda a counterpart in thle age in another sphere of the yeara between and isu large 0 mulberry trees acro established and it waa in this product that specula alon ran rile for a ilnia yearling trees bold for prices that ranged all the way from ta to sa each but the winter of 1841 there came an unusually bevere frost which destroyed hundreds ot thousands ot tho young trea and sounded the death knell vt the industry in america tor the time being the ruin waa especially com by reason of the fact that inaam of the bad purchased the ireba at fancy price and thus invested in aliu industry far greater capital than wan necessary or desirable deni rable fully a quarter ot a century ago the united or agriculture practical investigation ot bollt worm culture but it has been only within the past few yeara that the revival ot tha industry on this ld ot the atlantic has assumed tangible form the etherl v leavo bren conducted by the division or entomology at washington have established the ot raising n moat excellent quality 0 bilk worm cocoons over nearly the country rv M kimt A ZT HtoW the of competition on th part at american bilk with ho low priced labor it foreign countries 1 to be sure something of a lein but in view oc the fact that oil tho of may astvat in U not a as lo 10 lor alia erni lual improvement of machinery id to equillie equa llie the in AL U facea this and countries and will make it possible for the manufacturer to pay price for american the illet the of la new uc bourst taft larva of a cherti aro arl alc eliut on IM variety haa ral cultivation been under bor the awo worm aro about tha alx ot turnip alia aeda bilk i and nearly spherical la tonn male produces an average of about eggs about of these eggs n quiren to make an ounce in the infant worm has gnawed its of the egg it proves itself at the prodigious eater usually own weight in leaves every day the knect becomes reat lets ahw fd growth Is attained stop eaklor M throws out the liken threads Is formed in fluid condition oad haw from the body of the a 1 single thread and in a iii from this the cocoon Is construct ri N within from three to five days the v Is safely sheltered in abl te in order to prevent breakage of abe JM cate silken threads by the moth in amk ing from the cocoon the cocco IN steamed until the imprisoned lose eMin presumably dead tha next operation ts the T of the silk the outer alc knori 11 floss Is utilized for carding while ft inner cocoon Is tough u strong being composed of a at tenuous thread the requirement to b fure success in silkworm silk worm culture numerous however it Is the room in which the uk boni M reared be warm in winter and B i tl it only a few insects are annl brays set on tables will berve as the only equipment but it the ilac if to bo carried on on a af scale it Is desirable to have de MI ranged one above the other bhea k to hatch the eggs are spread thinly over them la placed netting covered with finely cut W when the newborn worms paw the of the net in starch of MM they may be transferred to any alt tired later it Is wise to 0 arches or twigs into which th may mount in order to cpin r coons the great boon tor the american sk worm of aund in fact that leaves have been discovered to b u arf food for silk worms as mulberry lj and U silk produced on this of the fenest quality the ose oa 03 is of course found in part ot ti united states and there Is removed possibility of a repe itte the losses which ruined the america ia culture industry during alie alil taff i the past century one of the athla new era of silkworm silk worm cukic 1 america Is mrs carrie tt an cleeo cal who sends out albi great of eggs whereat BE 1 I H alil has at deorta III sn ln anta ta from which over silk tw shipped annually fawad |