SILK CULTIVATION.
The Cotton Supply Association is to have its pendant in the Silk Supply Association; which looks as if the ordinary action of demand and supply had failed of their effect in the one case as in the other, a question for political economists to discuss. The Silk Association, having constituted itself, with chairman, treasurer, and secretary, undertakes to "stimulate the production of silk in every country where the mulberry tree is capable of giving food to silkworms.'*' Why not the ailanthus also, and the oak, on which some kinds of silkworms live? In India they are to be especially active in propagating sericulture? they will endeavor to introduce it into Eastern Australia, and in Turkey and other conn* tries nearer home, the authorities and consular agents are to be incited to do their best to improve the breed of silkworms, and increase the supply of cocoons. It is perhaps well for the world that Colonial Governors, and Sultans, aud Viceroys, and Government functionaries of different degrees, should assist iu keeping throwsters and weavers at work, and in rendering it more and more possible for women to walk the world in silk attire.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 136, 12 June 1869, Page 2
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