THE SILK CROP.
Some very complete information is published by the French Minister of Agriculture as to the prospect of this year's silk crop both in France and abroad, to which the crisis in the trade at Lyons lends special interest. The quantity of silkworm eggs and seed raised in France was about the same as ia 1876, being aViove the figure for that year in the departments of the Gard, the Vaucluse, theHerault, and the Bouches-du-Rhone, and below them in the Drome, the Isere, and the Ardecue, but the crop of cocoons was much larger, being estimated at 6783 tons, as against 229 S in 1876, and 10,070 in 1875, and 11,071 in 1874. The departments which have produced tho most this year are the Gard (3264 tons), the Ardeche()96l tons), the Drome (1917 tons), and Vaucluse (1028 tons), next to which come the Isere, the Bouches-du-Rhone, and the Var, with about 400 tons each. Out of tho total crop of cocoons, 5690 tons are yellow, and 1099 green ; and while the former are reported good, the latter will, it is apprehended, be found very inferior. The estimated yield from these cocoons will be 475 tons of raw yellow silk and 70 tons of green ditto, and the averages price has been sf. for the yellow, and 3Jf. for tho green cocoons. In Italy the crop has yielded 22,450 tons, against 14,537 in 1876, 39,410 in 1875, and 42,310 in 1874 ; and here the green silkworm predominates, being sixsevenths of the total quantity. The yellow cocoons are reported good, but the others are bad, and the crop will not yield above 1500 tons of silk. The Spanish crop has yielded 920 tons, against 1210 tons in 1576, 1605 in 1575, and 1843 in 1874. In the Levant, Broussa has given 800 tons of cocoons, more than half of which, obtained from the green, silkworm of Japan, will turn out well. Comparing the cropß of all the countries mentioned above, it will be apparent that they supplied 2316 tons in 1877, 1456 in 1876, and 3739 ia 1875 ; in other words, that the crops of the two former years scarcely exceeded that of 1875.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5185, 3 November 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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364THE SILK CROP. New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 5185, 3 November 1877, Page 1 (Supplement)
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