Changa Manga silkworm eggs (about 3 million eggs) from France. To house the worms, he created long sheds from bamboo and dried grass. The worms’ feed consisted entirely of mulberry leaves obtained from felled trees in the forest. The worms fed on 70 hundredweights of leaves a day. In 1916, the Governor of Punjab Sir Michael O'Dwyer visited the silk experiment where the silkworms had started developing cocoons. The governor left pleased with Booth-Tucker’s work. The Salvation Army Silk Camp remained a sustainable venture for a year after the governor’s visit, although changes to the climate later led to its decline. The
Satellite Silkworm Breeding Station Madras gifted this station to CSB which was named as Silkworm Seed Station, which assisted the Central Silkworm Seed Station, Sri Nagar in isolation, purification and fixation of races and breeding work throughout the country and played a vital role in the silkworm seed organisation. In 1977 the Silkworm Seed Station was upgraded and named as Regional Sericultural Research Station under overall Technical and Administrative control of Central Sericultural Research & Training Institute, Mysore During 2003 the station was renamed as Satellite Silkworm Breeding Station under the Central Sericultural Research & Training Institute, Mysuru with mandates to conserve breeders stock