tailieunhanh - SILK CULTURE

Another of the great and in some ways one of the most remarkable industries of the Orient is that of silk production, and its manufacture into the most exquisite and beautiful fabrics in the world. Remarkable for its magnitude; for having had its birthplace apparently in oldest China, at least 2600 years B. C.; for having been founded on the domestication of a wild insect of the woods; and for having lived through more than four thousand years, expanding until a $1,000,000 cargo of the product has been laid down on our western coast at one time and rushed. | SILK CULTURE Another of the great and in some ways one of the most remarkable industries of the Orient is that of silk production and its manufacture into the most exquisite and beautiful fabrics in the world. Remarkable for its magnitude for having had its birthplace apparently in oldest China at least 2600 years B. C. for having been founded on the domestication of a wild insect of the woods and for having lived through more than four thousand years expanding until a 1 000 000 cargo of the product has been laid down on our western coast at one time and rushed by special fast express to New York City for the Christmas trade. Japan produced in 1907 26 072 000 pounds of raw silk from 17 154 000 bushels of cocoons feeding the silkworms from mulberry leaves grown on 957 560 acres. At the export selling price of this silk in Japan the crop represents a money value of 124 000 000 or more than two dollars per capita for the entire population of the Empire and engaged in the care of the silkworms as seen in Figs. 184 185 186 and 187 there were in 1906 1 407 766 families or some 7 000 000 people. Richard s geography of the Chinese Empire places the total export of raw silk to all countries from China in 1905 at 30 413 200 pounds and this at the Japanese export price represents a value of 145 000 000. Richard also states that the value of the annual Chinese export of silk to France amounts to 10 000 000 pounds sterling and that this is but twelve per cent of the total from which it appears that her total export alone reaches a value near 400 000 000. The use of silk in wearing apparel is more general among the Chinese than among the Japanese and with China s eightfold greater population the home consumption of silk must be large indeed and her annual production must much exceed that of Japan. Hosie places the output of raw silk in Szechwan at 5 439 500 pounds which is nearly a quarter of the total output of Japan and silk is extensively grown in eight other provinces which

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