A short article in the Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club reprinting extracts from the literary diary of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale College, edited by Franklin B. Dexter (1901). The entries from the 1780s and 1790s record the raising of mulberry trees and silkworms in Connecticut, including numbers of worms and trees, silk yields, and Stiles's distribution of mulberry seed to ministers and nurseries. The last entries describe Eli Whitney's cotton gin model and the fire that destroyed his workshop in New Haven.