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Correspondence Relating to Cultivation of Silk (Classic Reprint)

Parliament, New South Wales

Correspondence Relating to Cultivation of Silk (Classic Reprint)

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Simla, September, 1869. My Dea.K Loed Belmoee, In continuation of my letter of the 13 th ultimo, I enclose a copy of a pamphlet by Captain Thomas Hutton, entitled Remarks on the Cultivation of Silk in India. A copy of the pamphlet has also been despatched to Dr. Bennett. I remain, c., MAYO. Enclosure. Remarks on the cultivation of Silk in India, by Captain Thomas Hutton, F.G.S., C.M.Z.S., Corresponding Member of the Agri-Horticultural Society of India. (From the Journal of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. Vol. I, part 4 , new series.) To the Secretary of the Agricultural Society of India, My Dear Sir, In answer to your call to make a few observations on the cultivation of silk in India, and with special reference to the Conference on this subject, as reported in the Journal of the Society of Arts for 9 th April, 1869 (No.855 of Vol. 17), I now do myself the pleasure of sending a few remarks in support of the many papers I have already published upon this subject, but as from former hard work, care, and sickness, I have become a somewhat prematurely feeble old man, I must beg of the Society to kindly overlook the poverty of detail, on the plea that non sum qualis eram and can no longer so fully enter into the subject as I might have done some few years since. Keeping in view the fact, as I believe it to be, that the present movement in England regarding silk, has for its object the opening up in India of new localities for the introduction and cultivation of the silkworm, it appears to me that the first thing to be done is to raise a warning voice, founded on the failures that have already, in many districts, taken place against rushing headlong into spectilations which from the very nature and constitutional condition of the insects could only end in disappointment. The fact that many such failures have already occurred, furnishes valid evidence of the truth of my declarations, long since made, that such would assuredly be the ultimate result. My remarks however only then served to provoke the displeasure and sneers of sundry individual5?, on the ground that I was only a meddling naturalist, and not a practical cultivator, and it was further hinted that even as a naturalist I was foolishly endeavouring to establish the existence of several distinct species of Bombyx, while in reality, as they sapiently insisted, there was but one. On this point, however, events have fully justified my views. Thus naturalist or no naturalist, since one of my opponents facetiously and elegantly remarked, that the proof of the pudding was in the eating, facts have in both instances declared that magna est veritas et prevaiebit, while the peculiar pudding that my friend was concocting turned out by some mistake to be a hash. I was not, however, the first to point out that the climate of the Northwestern Provinces was unsuitable to the constitution of the mulberry silkworm, Dr. Royle having come to the same conclusion long previous to the time when I entered upon the subject. As the subject of silk cultivation in India is of vast importance, both to this country and to England, and Mr. P.L. Simmonds not having fully exhausted the subject, I shall endeavour to add what little information I may have picked up since the publication of my last papers on the cultivation of silk.

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