20S 'JRANSACTIONS OF THE 



EEPORT UFON STEAM PLOW. 



Conrad Locher, of Oroville — model of steam plow. The committee 

 recommended that this model receive special and honorable mention, 

 for. the following reasons: 



First — It embraces more real points of utility and usefulness than are 

 embraced in &x\y other plow. 



Second — They think it would eventually be of great importance to our 

 agricultural interests by the great good it would work. 



Third — The inventors having expended a large sum of money in its 

 perfection. 



They would recommend to the Board that, if compatible with the 

 interests of the Association, it be awarded a sufficient sum of money 

 from the treasury to assist the proprietors in completing the inven- 

 tion. 



EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SILK. 



Your committee finds but one entry that fills the conditions required 

 by the precise wording of the society's offer of premiums, viz : " Best 

 exhibition of the silk business, from the mulberry tree to the silk cocoon, 

 including the feeding of the worms, their eggs, etc." 



I. N. Hoag exhibits not only a very large quantity of cocoons of 

 superior excellence, but also the mulberry trees and silkworms in the 

 different stages of their growth, from the eggs of one day old, to the 

 full-grown worms, in the actual process of forming and completing their 

 cocoons; an interesting exhibition to large numbers of persons not yet 

 engaged in the silk business, and entitles Hoag to the society's premium 

 of fifty dollars. 



Your committee cannot but regret that only a single premium was 

 offered for the encouragement of this most promising industry, so cer- 

 tainly destined to become one of the greatest importance to the future 

 of California. 



If it comes within the province of your committee to recommend spe- 

 cial premiums to persons who, at large expense, have placed on exhi- 

 bition, for the examination and admiration of visitors, superb displays 

 of cocoons and raw silks, and who have stood by their exhibits, giving 

 daily and hourly information regarding the production of silk culture 

 and management of silkworms, and the growth of the mulberry, we 

 would recommend that valuable special premiums be awarded to Edward 

 Muller, of Nevada City, who presents the largest number and variety of 

 cocoons on exhibition, and to Thomas A. Garey, of Los Angeles, who 

 represents the products and silk interests of eighteen different silk 

 growers of Los Angeles County. 



Your committee would also make special mention of Joseph Neumann, 

 of San Francisco, the pioneer silk manufacturer of the Pacific coast, 

 who, under every condition of discouragement incident to a new business 

 in a new country, has persevered in his attempts until a certain measure 

 of success has at last attended his efforts. He now presents a large 



