Eight Years Experience and Observation in the Culture of the Mulberry Tree, and in the Care of the Silk Worm. With remarks adapted to the American system of producing raw silk for exportation.

Title: Eight Years Experience and Observation in the Culture of the Mulberry Tree, and in the Care of the Silk Worm. With remarks adapted to the American system of producing raw silk for exportation.
Author: Samuel Whitmarsh
Publisher: J. H. Butler, Northampton, Massachusetts
Published: 1839
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 156
Catalogs: Farming, Nature, Business
Description: Missing fold-out frontispiece. Original brown blind-embossed cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Spine is cracked and frayed on rear hinge. Tips are bumped, slightly frayed. Stitching is visible. Flyleaf is cut and pastedown is damaged. Interior pages are foxed and tanned, but easily readable, with no known marginalia. This volume is Whitmarsh's argument for the production and manufacture of silk in the United States as a new industry, in competition with Asia, and his instruction on how to achieve the best mulberry for cultivating silkworms. The book includes chapters on the selection of and the proper conditions for growing mulberry trees, raising worms, whether thunderstorms would affect the worms, reeling, and the economics of silk culture. The author also suggests the introduction of the mulberry tree to poorhouses as a form of light work, either in cultivation of the tree and its leaves, in sale of the cocoons, or even in reeling the silk on site. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 156 pages, 16mo.