. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. SILKWORM SILKWORM 641 until 530 A. D. After the latter date the culture rapidly increased, and soon became prominent in Turkey, Italy and Greece, and has held its own in those countries, becoming of great importance in Italy, and achieving a considerable rank as an agri- cultural industry in France, and less so in Spain and Portugal. Silk-culture has also been practiced to some extent, but with slight comparative success, in parts of Germany, and recently with rather favorable results in Hungary. Attempts to estab- lish the indus
. Cyclopedia of farm animals. Domestic animals; Animal products. SILKWORM SILKWORM 641 until 530 A. D. After the latter date the culture rapidly increased, and soon became prominent in Turkey, Italy and Greece, and has held its own in those countries, becoming of great importance in Italy, and achieving a considerable rank as an agri- cultural industry in France, and less so in Spain and Portugal. Silk-culture has also been practiced to some extent, but with slight comparative success, in parts of Germany, and recently with rather favorable results in Hungary. Attempts to estab- lish the industry in England, although made from time to time, have failed. Silk-culture has held its own in China, is still in vogue in India, and in Japan has made great strides. The latter country today produces a very considerable proportion of the world's supply of raw silk. Thus, of the forty- one millions of dollars spent by the United States in 1902 for raw silk, more than twenty millions went to Japan. [See page 643.] In America.— With the colonizing of North America, attempts were made at an early date to practice silk-culture, and the colonists of Virginia,. i Fig. 647. Full-grown silkworm: 1, head; 2, thorax; 3-10, 12, abdominal segments; 11, horn; 13, true legs; 14, pro-legs; 15, anal pro-legs. South Carolina and Georgia engaged in the indus- try to a certain degree. Some reeling was done on hand-reels, and both cocoons and reeled silk were sent to Europe. In 1759, Georgia produced 10,000 pounds of cocoons, and, reeled in the colony on hand-reels, the resulting silk commanded a higher price in the London market than that from the old silk-producing countries. The culture was in- troduced into New England about 1660, in parts of Connecticut and also on Long Island. Pennsylvania and New Jersey started the industry in 1771, but all work in the northern states was interrupted by the Revolutionary war. In 1828, an attempt was made to revive the industry and a treatise on the raisin
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