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Eight Years Experience and Observation in the Culture of the Mulberry Tree, and in the Care of the Silk Worm. With Remarks Adapted To The American System Of Producing Raw Silk For Exportation.
de Whitmarsh, Samuel
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Northampton: Butler, 1839. , 1839. 156p. Folding frontispiece. Including chapters on the selection of and the proper conditions for growing mulberry trees, raising worms, reeling the silk, and the economics of silk culture. Whitmarsh sought to convince American farmers of the ease and profitability of silk-growing. He was convinced that American silk was of better quality and would therefore be in greater demand despite its higher price. The author's plan even included instructing the poor in American cities in silk culture as a means of eradicating unemployment. Original Embossed green coth with gilt tile. Spine sunned. Paper toned & end papers foxed. Very Good copy. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- Eight Years Experience and Observation in the Culture of the Mulberry Tree, and in the Care of the Silk Worm. With Remarks Adapted To The American System Of Producing Raw Silk For Exportation.
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- Whitmarsh, Samuel
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- Northampton: Butler, 1839.
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- 1839
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- Silk
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