Description - A Manual Containing Directions for Sowing, Transplanting and Raising of the Mulberry Tree; Together with Proper Instructions for Propagating the Same by Cuttings, Layers, &C., &C. as Also, Instructions for the Culture of Silk to Which Is Added, Calculatio by Edward P Roberts
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. 1835 Excerpt: ... as it is either consumed or becomes withered." Having thus copied the plain common sense directions above, we would respectfully state that Count Dandolo, --and those who have either abstracted or transcribed his plan, for most all the writers appear to have done either the one or the other, --recommends that, "When the Mulberry leaves are about to open, the cloths upon which the eggs are fastened, should be put into a small pail of water, steeped up and down, that they may be thoroughly soaked for nearly six minutes, which will be sufficient to dissolve the gummy substance by which the eggs are stuck to the cloth. The six minutes elapsed, the cloths must be taken out, and the water allowed to drip from them, by holding them up for two or three minutes. They should then be spread upon the table, the cloth to be well stretched, while the eggs are separated from the cloth with a scraper. The scraper should not be too sharp, for fear of cutting the eggs, neither too blunt, lest it should crush them." And after the eggs are off the linen cloths, they are to be put into a basin and submit ted to the operation of another washing, and then drained either by means of a siovo or cloth and dried. fk.c. We have given this not with a view of recommending it, but merely of showing the parade that is thrown around a few eggs by giving a factitious importance to what does not deservu a second thought. Where we would ask did the worms in their native state procure their scrapers and persons to use them? Where did they derive the water to perforin their ablutions in? Where let us ask, has science derived the knowledge of the fact, that the gummy substance, which gives to the eggs their cohesive property, should be removed? We are not among those who would reje...
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