The Shipley collection of scientific papers, Volumen3101925 |
Términos y frases comunes
ammonium sulphate amount average bales bamboo basin baskets bivoltine buyer Canton catties cents cheks Chinese coarse cocoon markets cocoon production color cost crop disease egg merchants egg sheets estimated export feeding fish flacherie foot power give grade grasserie Haikwan Hainan hatch Heungshaan Hokshaan Hongkong houses inches Kaaukong Kwaichow Kwongsi Province Kwongtung leaf leung Loklau Lun Uet manure mau of land methods moths mulberry fields mulberry leaves mulberry plants Naamhoi District night soil peanut cake pebrine percent piculs pierced cocoons placed polyvoltine profits pupae raw silk rearing worms reelers reeling region rereeling season secure seedlings sell sericulture sheet of eggs Shuntak District silk districts silk industry silk worms skeins sold South China spinning racks steam filatures Taai Cho taams of leaves taels temperature thread univoltine usually varies warehouse waste silk weather weaving West River women worm farmers woven Yungki
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Página 1 - ... investigation. BIBLIOGRAPHY. 1884. Bauerman, H. Report on the Geology of the country near the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, west of the Rocky Mountains, from observations made in 1859-1860. Geological and Natural History Survey and Museum of Canada, Reports and Maps of Investigations and Surveys. The field work upon which this report is based was carried on in connection with the Boundary Commission Expedition of 1859-61. A reconnaissance survey was extended over the trails both north...
Página 122 - The reeling room is usually too dark for such delicate work and the eyes of the reelers are very much taxed to see the fine silk thread which they are reeling. Older women are seldom seen at the basins for the reason that their eyes have succumbed to the strain put on them earlier.
Página 15 - This district lies in the center of the delta region. The land is low, and intersected by numerous branches and arms of the river and by canals so that nearly every corner is accessible by boats large or small. The land is for the most part very little above high tide line in the summer rainy season. In July and August these low lying lands are subject to floods of more or less severity which ruin large quantities of mulberry leaves during the two crops of those months. The soil is heavy black loam...
Página 141 - Working conditions in the filatures are not ideal. The poor construction of the building with its dark rooms and lack of ventilation must to a very appreciable degree affect the quality of the silk reeled. The women are crowded and do not have room for the proper manipulation of their equipment. The working hours are long, from 6 or...
Página 4 - In is claimed that sericulture was introduced into Siam in the seventh century BC Reports from Annam state that it came into that country in the third century BC, while Tonkin reports claim that sericulture passed from Western China into Indo-China. There is still a route of travel from Szechuan Province in Western China through Yunnan Province and southward to Burma and Siam. As the knowledge of silk production spread westward from China to Khotan and Persia, it probably also extended southward...
Página 18 - This district has 135 steam filatures, each averaging 400 or more basins and giving employment to more than 65,000 people. There are also at least 200 foot power filatures, with over 30 basins each, employing at least 6,000 people, and a large number with less than 30 basins.
Página 38 - Kwongtung being too far from the center of China to have a part in the original exportations over the caravan routes of Asia to Europe, but with the coming of the foreigner by sea, and with Canton as the main port of trade with Europe, raw silk found its way into the list of exports from South China. With the introduction of the steam filature a new day came for Canton silk.
Página 133 - ... in as needed. In water as hot as that of her reeling basin the gum on the cocoon threads is continually becoming softer and she must be constantly gathering around her finger the loosening ends of the fibres so as to keep them taut.
Página 88 - Instead of 30 to 35 baskets, at least 45 should be used at the end. The amount of leaf eaten while the worms are in the first three ages is comparatively small. It is necessary to place a certain quantity of leaf on the baskets but much has to be thrown away. - The greatest amount of growth takes place during Age V.
Página 5 - District. After this cross had been made the custom of watering the winter eggs to make them hatch at once and give the customary number of generations was introduced. So long has this watering process been carried on that it is considered as an absolute necessity for all eggs of all crops, whether summer or winter eggs, and to it is attributed all blame or credit for diseased or healthy worms and cocoons.