America's New Industry, Silk Growing

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Excerpt from America's New Industry, Silk Growing: A Complete Manual of Instructions for Silk Growers Silk growers generally call the egg of the silk worm, which is nearly round, slightly ¿attened and of the size of a small pinhead, the seed. - When first deposited by the moth, it is of a yellow color, and this color it retains if it does not become impregnated. If impregnated it changes color to a gray, slate, violet, or dark green hue, varying somewhat according to breed or variety of the worm. Each female moth produces from three to four hundred of these eggs, and in the market they are sold by the ounce, which contains from to of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.