Excerpt from Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Vol. 8: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents, and Every Kind of Useful Information, Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, July 1831 to January 1832Should the production of silk increase as rapidly in America as cotton has done, in the last thirty years, it will become an article of great consequence in our trade with that country, the Americans sending the raw ma roriai, and taking back the manufactured article in re turn, as is now the case with cotton.The white mulberry tree, and silk worm, are said to succeed in almost all the states of the union, and the latter can be brought forward at the time the former is in life.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.