We have much pleasure in drawing attention to a scheme on the part of the above Society for holding a Geographical bition in December, with the view of raising a fund for the extension of geographical knowledge. The following extract then you must spree ily about the tops of the roosts some slips of ambi willow, when th ts will begin to This is called making the roosts Taking down the cocoons, after the mounting upon the roosting labyrinths, the cocoons can be taken d The grubs which mount curliest are earl taken down, See, first, that in the wis; then begin to pick the cocoons gently off. i If there are any black ones, the cup-like wisps must be turned down, and the black cocoons removed before. the others are picked off, lest the former should: corrupt the latter. There may be certain cocoons fe, which are called "shady co-'Those must be taken out} for cly cocoon amid a number of others reeled. will cause the silk to lose its gloss when
21.—How soon must reeling commence.—Reeling must begin within tone week from taking down the encoons. After a: week, the cocoons will be bitten open by the mathe, and will at once be spoiled. the cocoons be hested artificially, the moths will be killed inside the cocoons, and in this way they may be kept longer but cocoons warmed thus never produce very first-rate silk.
22.—The utility of the shady cocoons, changing it three a8 soon as the water, on being stirred, shows no sign of muddiness, boil the whole with the ashes of mulberry 3 bleach with frosh water; and dry the cocoons in the sun, The silk drawn off such can be woven into sill and cotton mixture, or "cotton sill,"
23.—The bility of the cocoons' kept for—When the mathe are out, soak for a day or two, and, like the cocoons, these can also be woven into silk and cotton mixture.
[V.B.—On page 367 of vol. 10 of the old cocoons, or chien pa? tse, worth eighty cash the catty; or '23 thou," the same cut up and prepared, which are sold for twenty cath the ounce, and are used for makin, cords and stutling pillows, cushions, &0."
furnace or oven for the reeling This must be round both above and below, 8 good two feet high, and narrower at the placed on the furnace, around with clay in order not to allow smoke to ox have remarked ilk, or wotting it term Kwo-p'én which has undorg or in the waa bu more than one wash:
which more than ates of Ko-pun ing through the basin in reeling" is hard] correct. As the SzCh'uan wash according to the number can get through,—the rat the tou or peck—no to|takon to keep the thread at a uniform thickness. The water in which the cocoon very hot, otherwise sect change into a moth.""] be used ind reeling. from the clearest parts ream, and will be all if taken as it runs from some be used, oF the silk will not be bright. Well water may not
26.—The furnaces to be place the reeling machines.—Those actly opposite the places wh tied to the machine, Two furnace are necessary if the silk is passed in double hrough two separate copper cash and one furnace if the thread is The silk la drawn up out of th and: passed over the furnace, over two inches distant from it is re does not spit, should be used.
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