young's TRAVELS IN FRANCE.
607
178c.—Upon his own account.
Expences.
tiv.
/
Jen.
Seed, 6 oz. - - -
3 6
0
O
Leaves, 370 facks, - - -
9 7
"3
O
Gathering and attendance, -
J 3°3
12
O
Spinning 910 lb. of cocoons,
265
0
O
Reducing 118 lb. 6 oz. of filk into organzine,
45 1
10
O
3 OI 3
15
O
Froduce.
Refuie filk, -
116
4
O
118 lb. 6 oz. of organzine, ...
43 2 5
5
O
Leaves fold, - - -
28
0
O
Silk kept for own ufe, 2 lb. 3 oz.
49
10
O
Expences,
4518
19
O
3 01 3
! 5
O
Profit,
1505
4
O
This year the profit would have been much greater ; but through the negligence ofthe women in the night, not attending to the degrees of heat (from 25 to 27 degreesReaumur), many were fuffocated*.
To Padua .—One ounce of feed gives fixty pounds of galetta (cocoons), and eightpounds to ten pounds of galetta one pound of filk : the ounce of feed requires fixteenfacks of leaves, of .four pe/i, each twenty-five pounds ; and twelve fmall trees yield onefack, but one great tree has been known to yield fix facks. Price of gathering, 10f.the fack. Expence of making fixty pounds of iiik, 250 livres. Spinning, 30 f. thepound. Cocoons fell at 30^ to 36 /. Silk this year, 25 livres the pound, fotile.
Padua .—One ounce of feed gives in common thirty pounds of cocoons, and eightpounds of cocoons one pound of filk : twenty facks, of eighty pounds of leaves, are ne-ceffary to feed the worms of an ounce of feed. Price of gathering, 20 f. the fack. Thegreateft trees give ten facks of leaves each ; a tree of twenty years four or five facks.It is not the general cuflom to divide this bufinefs with the peafants. The common fortof filk worm is hatched about the 25th of April; the others the middle of June; butfilk demands a more expenfive operation in the latter feafon.
Venice .—There are three forts of filk worms: — 1. The common one, which caffs itsepiderm, or fleep as it is called, four times. 2. A fort known at Verona, that caffs onlythree times; the cocoons fmaller than thofe of the other fort. 3. The new fort men-tioned by Count Carlo Bettoni, the feed of which hatch two or three times a year ; butthe others only once. The feed of the two firfl forts cannot be hatched the fame year
* Opufcoii Scelti, tom, iii. p. 33.
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