CULTURE OF SILK IN THE SOUTH.
GEORGIA is the Empire State of the South and has just taken the lead in a matter for far-reaching results of which it is difficult to forecast. A charter was recently granted to the Silk Culture and Manufacturing Company, with a capital stock of a quarter of a million dollars with the prospects of an increase to a million dollars in the near future. The purpose of the company is to introduce and foster the cultivation of raw silk in this country and to manufacture the raw material into the finished products. The headquarters of the concern is in Atlanta, and branch plants and colonies will be established in other parts of the State and in other States throughout the South. The first, located at Tallulah Falls, is now under way, 50,000 Mulberry trees, having already been planted. At Tallulah Falls the company already owns 2,500 acres of land, on which have been planted 50,000 Mulberry trees, which in a year or two will support the silk-worms. More land is to be bought in the near future, and it is all to be divided into twenty-five-acre farms. On each of these, five acres are to be planted in trees at once. Some French and Italian masters of industry are to be brought over and put on these farms, and every inducement is to be offered to farmers in the vicinity to set out trees also. This attempt to establish a new industry in this country could not have fallen into better hands or been undertaken with such promises of success as in the rich and enterprising State of Georgia, and that they will be eminently successful seems scarcely to admit a doubt.—Christian Work and Evangelist.