Nonnax (Deepse), second son of Ewen and Tosephing Cameron, aged 3 years, bine sky We drow attention some time ago to the effect which the disease of the sill worms known as La Pebrine was supposed by some experts to have on the silk crop of this country. As was to be expected our articles greatly inter-rested those who were engaged in silk mauufsotare in Earope, There has been sup' ly of silk in Into yenrs is attribute able ye disease in the worms, Only a small proportion of sickly worms, they say, pass the bath tests and thus pros pagate the disease. That may be true, or neatly 0, but the means adopted appear to us to be insufficient to irradicate a disease, which, us we know from its ravages and effects on the production of silk in Europe, oan carry such wholesale destruction. As a cons tributer shows in the Chinese Notes we publish in another column, disease among the silkworms had almost dew stroyed thosilk production of Frauceand Italy. The discoveries of M. Pasteur, and their application as remedial measures have almost entirely restored the silk production of these countries
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