This species has been found to do excellently well on Maui; the interior of the island being sufficiently elevated to afford a temperature which will preserve the eggs from hatching for any length of time, and thus give them a winter, without which thus far, it has been found impossible to make them hatch with any regularity, or in sufficient numbers to make them valuable to the silk growers. As these varieties are so much superior in size and weight to the China, and the mixed breed (a cross between the China and American, from which all the silk raised thus far has been reeled) it is important that they should be preserved, and perhaps a mulberry plantation upon the uplands of Maui would be a profitable concern. -There cannot be a doubt that when suitable sites are selected, silk growing will be an excellent business.
Sunday, January 19, 2014
American Varieties of the Silk Worm (1841)
Source: The Polynesian. Honolulu: Saturday, May 8, 1841.
This species has been found to do excellently well on Maui; the interior of the island being sufficiently elevated to afford a temperature which will preserve the eggs from hatching for any length of time, and thus give them a winter, without which thus far, it has been found impossible to make them hatch with any regularity, or in sufficient numbers to make them valuable to the silk growers. As these varieties are so much superior in size and weight to the China, and the mixed breed (a cross between the China and American, from which all the silk raised thus far has been reeled) it is important that they should be preserved, and perhaps a mulberry plantation upon the uplands of Maui would be a profitable concern. -There cannot be a doubt that when suitable sites are selected, silk growing will be an excellent business.
This species has been found to do excellently well on Maui; the interior of the island being sufficiently elevated to afford a temperature which will preserve the eggs from hatching for any length of time, and thus give them a winter, without which thus far, it has been found impossible to make them hatch with any regularity, or in sufficient numbers to make them valuable to the silk growers. As these varieties are so much superior in size and weight to the China, and the mixed breed (a cross between the China and American, from which all the silk raised thus far has been reeled) it is important that they should be preserved, and perhaps a mulberry plantation upon the uplands of Maui would be a profitable concern. -There cannot be a doubt that when suitable sites are selected, silk growing will be an excellent business.
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