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SILK CULTURE IN SOUTH CARoLIEA.-We take pleasore, says the Savannah Republican. m giving place 10 the following extract o letter from a planter of much experience in Barnwell District, South Carolina. It is dated at Swallow Savannah, April 29lh. The writer is lheorist. and his state ment may be relied upon with perfect confidence. He says:

 '' propose 10 give you some of the results of our brief experience in the Silk business, presumng thai it may be fservice t0 your agricu,sral readers. have between five and six hundred young and thrifty msorus muiicauius trees, which have reared at very little trouble cost At the proper season for feed. ing, was fortunately able to secure abou 10, 900 eggs through the kindness of Dr. Sydney Smith, of Rnbertve. They matched in March, aud my wife with such of her house servants as could be spared, commenced attending them with such fixtures as l could hurriedlv put up. They grew finely, and about one half of them have wound mp. The cocoons are so superior that will give you the following statement 10 show that our State and climate are peculiarly adapted to the successful culture of Silk.

 'In Cobbs Manuel, page 79. it is stated that of silk raised in Georgia in the early settlement of the colony. 200 cocoons weighed pound. In Mas sachusets Of cocoons raised by Mrs Davenport. 206 weighed one yonnd-he does not state whether they were weighed before the chrysiles were killed In the same note he states that oi cocoons raised by Mir. D'Homergue, al Philadelphia, from eggs pro cured in South Carolina, 3S7 weighed one pound.

 "Now, the cocoons raised by Mrs. A, with but little aitention are superior all these. Eight days after, being spun wien just gathered and cleared of floss, we selected one hundred and eighy-two which weighed pound. Three hundred, taken promscu- ously, ghed pound, and $500, taken in the game manner, measure one bushel.