Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . PRUNING OF MULBERRY TREES 281. a. 282 SILK CULTURE domesticated Bomhyx mori; large amounts are obtained from thespinnings of wild silkworms feeding upon the leaves of a speciesof oak growing on the mountain and hill lands in various parts ofChina, Korea and Japan. In China the collections in largest amountare reeled from the cocoons of the tussur worm {Aniliercea pernyi)gathered in Shantung, Honan, Kweichow and Szechwan the hilly parts of Manchuria also this industry is attaining largeproportions, th
Farmers of forty centuries; or, Permanent agriculture in China, Korea and Japan . PRUNING OF MULBERRY TREES 281. a. 282 SILK CULTURE domesticated Bomhyx mori; large amounts are obtained from thespinnings of wild silkworms feeding upon the leaves of a speciesof oak growing on the mountain and hill lands in various parts ofChina, Korea and Japan. In China the collections in largest amountare reeled from the cocoons of the tussur worm {Aniliercea pernyi)gathered in Shantung, Honan, Kweichow and Szechwan the hilly parts of Manchuria also this industry is attaining largeproportions, the cocoons being sent to Chefoo in the Shantimgprovince, to be woven into pongee silk. M. Randot has estimated the annual crop of wild silk cocoonsin Szechwan at 10,180,000 pounds, although in the opinion ofAlexander Hosie much of this may come from Kweichow. Richardplaces the export of raw wild silk from the whole of China proper,in 1904, at 4,400,000 pounds. This would mean not less than75,300,000 pounds of wild cocoons and may be less than half thehome consumption. From data collected by Alexander Hosie,
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