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Essays on American Silk, and the Best Means of Rendering It a Source of Individual and National Wealth; With Directions to Farmers for Raising Silk Worms

Essays on American Silk, and the Best Means of Rendering It a Source of Individual and National Wealth; With Directions to Farmers for Raising Silk Worms


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830. Excerpt: ... Providence, and will meet with no better success. Every attempt to manufacture silk that will not be begun on right principles, will only retard the period when America will be in the full enjoyment of the blessings which nature has prepared for her. J. D'HOMERGUE. September 3, 1829. - No. XIII. The author means to conclude with this number.--Object that he has had fii view.--Great demand in Europe for fine raw silk.--Ridiculous pretensions exposed.--These essays will serve as a test for similar ones.--Difficulties in the way of introducing the silk business into this country.--Teachers of the art cannot be easily procured from abroad.--Proofs of this assertion. I have, at last, reached the end of the course which I proposed to myself in writing these essays. At first I had nothing in view but to communicate to the American public the interesting discovery which it was my good fortune to make, and to prove, by actual experiments, the great superiority of the American silk, in quality as well. as quantity, over that of Europe; which was afterwards followed by that of the hardly less important fact, that the cocoons produced by worms fed on the leaves of the wild American native mulberry tree, do not yield to others in the beauty of their silk, and only differ from them by the greater quantity of floss that they contain. Urged, however, by the solicitation of some patriotic friends, and-particularly of the gentleman to whom I am indebted for aid in the composition of these essays, I was induced to combat the erroneous opinion that appeared generally to prevail, that the manufacturing of sewing silk was a principal, if not the principal objost to be pursued in the employment of the American material; an error which, if persevered in, would have led to t...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151634238
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151634239
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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