Silk Farming - Couverture rigide

Long, Ellen Call

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1359417850 ISBN 13 : 9781359417855

Editeur : Palala Press, 2016

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RqmmoRY, THE use of silk iu garments is knovn to have been adopted three centuries before tlie Christian era ;hdw much earlier iu the history of the world is uncertain. It seems coeval with civilization, and yet to-day in many parts of the world it is almost as new as of recent discovery. In reference to A merica, it is found that sericulture was introduced into Mexico with the Spanish conquest, and that Cortez, in his plan of government, appointed officials to take charge of the industry, and ordered the planting of mulberry trees, which fact is established by a case of litigation, arising subsequently, from an investigation of what had been done by the first board of auditors. A mong other items, one-quarter of an ounce of silkworm eggs is charged to have been sent by the crown of Spain for the introduction of silk culture into the newly achieved territory ;whereupon it is proved that said quarter of an ounce was given to one party, who, though eminently successful, only returned two ounces of eggs to the government, yet sold a very large quantity for his own benefit, at prices ranging as high as sixty dollars per ounce: proving that at the start the culture was crippled by speculation on this Continent. That one Oliver de Serres, in 1600, atti acted the attention of Henry
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1359417850
• ISBN 13: 9781359417855
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 54
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