New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . e Englishmen,Irishmen, and Scotchmen, speaking the Englishlanguage, and were acquainted with the spirit, ifnot the letter of our laws. Here and there an emi-grant from one of the small independencies nowmerged into the German empire could be , too, was soon a part and parcel of the life ofthe community. No one even suggested the possi-bilities of a vast emigration of the Romance,Slavonic, and Hebraic peoples, who later added somaterially to the growth of the cities, and con-tributed so largely to the sudden change i
New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . e Englishmen,Irishmen, and Scotchmen, speaking the Englishlanguage, and were acquainted with the spirit, ifnot the letter of our laws. Here and there an emi-grant from one of the small independencies nowmerged into the German empire could be , too, was soon a part and parcel of the life ofthe community. No one even suggested the possi-bilities of a vast emigration of the Romance,Slavonic, and Hebraic peoples, who later added somaterially to the growth of the cities, and con-tributed so largely to the sudden change in the in-dustrial conditions in the State. As the public mind slowly absorbed the corpo-rate idea the list of manufactories, many of whichwere upon paper, increased in length. But withthe changing conditions came the fever of specula-tion, which in New Jersey, as elsewhere, found oneform of expression in the silk worm by a State bounty of fifteen cents perpound for cocoons, there had been planted in NewJersey, by 1838, no less than twohj^a^^ijtjtoi^. 248 NEW JERSEY AS A COL sand morus miUticaulus,OT mulberry, trees, of whichprobably twenty thousand were near had attempted to show that land oflittle value, particularly in the southern part ofthe State, could raise two hundred to three hun-dred pounds of cocoons at a profit of from fortyto fifty dollars per acre. This would give, per-haps, twenty to twenty-five pounds of reeled such alluring prospects, during the years1836,1837, and 1839, the Bergen, Burlington, Can-ton, Elizabethtown, Morris, Warren, Trenton, andSalem silk companies were incorporated. The craze, which in its intensity rivaled thetulip mania of Holland, spread throughout theState. Upon nearly every farm and plantationwere long rows of the morus multicaulus, each ofwhich trees had been cut into as many pieces asthere were trunk buds, each bud producing a treeto be similarly treated. A simple calculation inarithmet
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