Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1892 — Most Valuable of Insects. [ARTICLE]

Most Valuable of Insects.

There is no insect that approaches the silkworm in the total commercial value of its products, the manufacture of which gives employment, according to the latesl census returns, to nearly sixty-four thousand persons in the United Kingdon alone, to say nothing of France,- Italy and the far East. But in actual market value, per pound weight, the cochiaea: insect is far ahead of any other, though its price is fluctuating and has grea.'lj decreased since the comparatively recent discovery of so many much cheaper cub stitutes for the dyes obtained from it. Next to the cochineal comes the cantha rides insect, whose strongly irritant pro perties make it so valuable in the preparation of blisters. —[Yankee Blade.