Col. M. B. Hillyard, who, perhaps, more than any living man has devotedly given time and money in building up Southern industries, says: "But I warn every one against hoping for any success in a business point of view, in the use of the osage orange. The difficulty in securing sufficient leaves, by reason of thorns; the dangers of the succulent leaf, at the late stages of the silkworm, aside from any mooted points on this food, ought to prevent any one using the osage orange, except to learn on. The food answers for a year as food, while you learn silk culture, and until your mulberry trees can be used; but I think the great authorities will agree that, except as a diversion, silk culture on osage orange will prove a failure."