Silk In America

Proofofthe healthfül growth of silk culture and manufacture in the üuited States is giveu in the following brief cit.ation from an elabórate ariiulo in the New York 'lïim'x : Since tho home manufacture of silk got a footing, the impui tation of the article has titilen off, and in the nine inonths oompleted of 187:5 the importutions of silk have been inurh lesa than in the corresponding uine nionths of 1871 and 1872. For instauce, in 1871 the quantity of imported silk entered foi eonsumption amonnted in valuo to $23,8s4,l."y.'i, and for warehousing ;?,T(i),2-'i', givinga total ot $30,644,386' In 1872 the total was $31,012, (08, and for the oorrespondiiig months of this year it is reduced to $22,761,818, or $7,882,568 lesa than 1871, and $8,250,790 lees thari in 1872. The dry gooda imports icir 187o of wool, 'cotton, Hax, slik and tho:-f coming undur the dunomination miscellaiicims, are $10,977,996 less than in 1871 and $19,558,210 less than in 1872. Jtwiïl be thus seeu that tlm deorease of ilk iinportation representa one-third of the docrease in the dry gool importationg. Xow, with this falling off in importa ot silk, the loom of the country are at work and the dem.mds of eonsuniers a:e steadily met, while there ia no inoreaaéd cost to the coTisunier. The silk trade of America is, in truth, at preient an established fact. Withm in tne past ten years it has quadrupkd itself. It now gives employmeut to more hands than the silk trade of Trance, and has shown a progress which passes beyond that of England or any of the other European counti ies.