| Show promote home Wool and was goats kinds industry available but must be cotton silk the sheep and other learned Sometime Mary from in the Hansen 1890 my acquired mother some silk worms It was funny to see the long lumber table covered with worms Screen wire formed an edging all around Newspapers covered the of the cage The worms ate the green leaves of mulberry trees interesting chickens from the to watch hurry to worms the skeletons day before provide the the of bottom tender It was fresh like leaves leaves fed the It was my assignment to leaves from trees in yards of the Larsen Molenites Peter Larsen Chris David Killpack Fjelsteds and others hungry helped to livestock feed The silkworms grew about an eighth of an the crawling from inch eggs across to worms maybe four inches long My father said They had to be fat Square pieces of paper were twisted into cone shaped scoops and laid before the worms with from which side movement to side oblong cocoon inside and crawled died had Itwas concerned unwind the it done finished summer ended its job job for reel of silk but of these and waving round movement Somehow ball Some them of the head they built When theworm into all could never cocoons saw are still in some of my beloved relics No use was ever made of the project The tiny strands like spider webs though of stronger texture were tightly woven with in the now is sealing tiny whitecuriosity childhood Brigham substance Young ball and to hold them All they are remembrance of life had requested 32 and urged the |
