Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — Silkworms at the Fair. [ARTICLE]

Silkworms at the Fair.

Chief Buchanan is in correspondence with the silkworm producers of the country. He has written to all the State boards of agriculture for the addresses of the people who have received silkworm eggs from the Government. This industry in the United States is scattered through thirty-three States. The cocoon orop of the country in 1889 amounted to 18,745 pounds. This was purchased at Washington, Philadelphia, and Peabody, Kan. It is a notable fact that 2,786 pounds, or about one-eighth of Ihe entire product, was produced in Marion County, Kansas. Of course, the silkworm exhibit at the exposition will include exhibits from foreign countries, but the American exhibit promises to be very interest-, ing. N. R. Sessions, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, writes to Chief Buchanan that the Nonotuck Silk Company Of Florence will make a silk exhibit, from the egg to the finished product.