GROWTH AND MANUFACTURE OF

 NFEK.

HousE OF REPRESENTATIVE.

 March 12, 1880. {
MT. Spencer, of New ! ork, from the Committee on Agriculture, to which the subject had beenreferred, made the follow ing Report

 The Committee on Agriculture, who were

 instructed by a resolution, to inquire in-

 to the expediency of adopting measures

 to extend the cultivation of the white

 mulberry tree in the United States; to

 promote the culture of Silk, by introdu-

 clng the necessary machinery for reel

 ing the same from coceons; and for ac-

 quiring and disseminating practical

 knowledge therein, make the following

 Report in part.

 That the committee have been, great .ly aided in their inquiries on these i'm poriant subjects by essays, published recently, bby bbyy Mr. John D'Efomerguc, a native of France, who came to the United States during the last summer. Mir. D'Homergue, being unacquainted with our language, has been assisted in the writing these essays by Peter $. Du ponceau, esq. of whom it is unne- cessary to speak, he being extensively known as q gentleman of the most pat riotie views, possessing great scientific attainments and an unblemished char actcr. The committee, therefore. con- siderthese essays, and the factscontained in them, as entitled to nigh confidence.

 Among the facts developed are sev- eral of an important nature. 1t ap- ssss;ssF Fs that that American silk IS superior in quality to that produced in any other country. in france and Italy, twelve pounds of feocoons are required to pro- sduce one pound of raw silk, whilst eight pounds of American cocoons will produce one pound of raw silk. That cocoons cannot be exported to for eign market from several causes, their bulk, their liability to spoil by mould ing on shipboari, and because they "a moi he suppressed without render ing them incapable of being afterwards reeled.

 1t is farther demonstrated in these es. says, and in n memorial lately presented abs the nlanuiac cturers of silk st,fss. of Lyons, in France, to the ministsrof com- nerce and manufactures. Chat the art of tsre can only be acquired by prac- sfical instruction, by some one intimate- y acquainted with, and accustomed to. that process. Thatno human skill or Ingenuity, unaided by practical instruc- ton, is capable of acquiring that art, to any profitable extent. II is made manifest, that, although the culture ol silk has been carried on for many years m some pstrts ofthe United States, and more particularly in Connecticut, 1t has been conducted very uopro6tably, com pared with whattAe results might have been, r the art of flature. had been un- derstood. Ihe sewing silk made in