. The California silk growers' manual / by Ewer. California Silk Culture Association; Silkworms. SILK GROWERS' MANUAL. 17 report is highly favorable, both as to its practicability and profit. The manufacturing portion of the industry is already well established. The great need, now, is that we should produce our own raw silk, for the supply of which many millions of dollars are now annually sent out of the country. The exhibitions referred to have abundantly proved that the production here of the very best silk is possible, and those who have tried it on a practical scale, at the South, h
. The California silk growers' manual / by Ewer. California Silk Culture Association; Silkworms. SILK GROWERS' MANUAL. 17 report is highly favorable, both as to its practicability and profit. The manufacturing portion of the industry is already well established. The great need, now, is that we should produce our own raw silk, for the supply of which many millions of dollars are now annually sent out of the country. The exhibitions referred to have abundantly proved that the production here of the very best silk is possible, and those who have tried it on a practical scale, at the South, have pronounced it profitable. It is a branch of American industry which com- mends itself to all who desire to see the wealth that grows from it retained in our own country. It moreover commends it- self as an industry especially fitted to a large class of American women, who need some employment to keep them from being de- pendent on others; also to children of both sexes, but especially girls, who have need to do something with which to help them- selves pecuniarily during the period of their minority. The Atlanta Committee, in the course of its report, says: "In no business can women be more profitably and respectably employed than in the production of silk. The draft upon our national resources for imported silk has been one of great magni- tude. If patriotism and the love of inde- pendence are the offspring of America, let us unite our efforts, and, by the aid of our Legislatures, our Representatives and an in- telligent agricultural people, at once encour- age, protect and foster the production of American ; As an outcome of the Philadelphia exhi- bition, the manufacturers of textile fabrics in that vicinity have contributed $20,000 for the establishment of sericultural schools, or filatures, by which a ready market can be obtained for cocoons that may be produced in that locality. It is only by such enter- prise and by such means that this country can rend
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