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The Six business. Much good, we
think; will result to the country from the
preparations for raising silk Our climate
is peculiarly congena TO the insect that
produces 1t. The women, children, and
infrm persons scattered among our popu-
lation, from whose labors little or nothing
is realized, are competent to supply twenty
millions of dollars value in silk per annum,
instead of which we have imported in a
single year more than that amount-a sum
double the value of the whole exported
products of the United States for the same
period, from all our boasted fisheries, with
all the exports from our forests, of skins
and furS, lumber, masts. and all our manu-
pitch, iurpentine, pot and pearl ashes, &c.,
and also from our almost innumerabe farms,
all our exported beef, tallow, hides and
cattle, butter, cheese, pork, bacon, horses,
mules, sheep, &C., with our entire exports
Of wheat, corn, and -four superadded The
whole catalogue of this formidable portion
Of a nations hard earnings for foreign ex-
portation, did not in 1886 equal twelve
millions of dollars, while the imports of
silks the same year, exceeded twenty mil
lions of dollars; and by including silk and
worsted goods, of which silk constituted an
important part, they amounted to over twen-
ty-three millions five hundred thousand
dollars. This alarming statement, the C.
port from the treasury department will fully
verify. Is it not high time that silk should
command our attention.


Albany Culjvator