PRACTICAL SILKWORM REARING
The birth and rearing almost always take place under your control: it is therefore up to you to ensure they are favourable to you. You must learn to recognize good seed. [...] It is in your interest, therefore, to avail yourselves of silkworm seed from the award-winning Fratelli Sbraccia Silkworm Facility.
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Silkworms are gold
The 1920s and 30s saw an increase in publications regarding silkworm rearing. In this case, the Sbraccia brothers financed the printing and distribution of a periodical in which, collateral to articles about silkworm rearing, they advertised their very own silkworm seed production..
Credits: “Bachicoltura pratica”, Anno II, N°1, Dicembre 1929. Archivio storico comunale di Olginate.