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The result of that operation, concisely stated, is as follows 



RECEIPTS. 



486 ounces and 13£ pennyweights of eggs, sold Hentsch & 



Berton, at $i per ounce 



Eggs retained for self and sold other parties 



Perforated cocoons sold 



Total 



CONTRA. 



Labor and other expenses 



Net profits 



$1,946 70 



1,897 50 



75 30 



53,920 00 



472 00 



$3,448 00 



The feeding was commenced on the first of June. On the twenty- 

 fifth of July it was fully completed, and the eggs all made. On the 

 seventh of August I had my money from Hentsch & Berton, and could 

 have sold the entire product to them. 



Here is a profit of one thousand dollars per acre the second year from 

 planting the trees, and the time consumed in making it only sixty days. 

 I will hei*e state that I stifled the worms in a large number of cocoons, 

 enough to have made at least twenty-five ounces more of eggs. I have 

 heretofore estimated the land at four acres, bnt on measurement find 

 but a small fraction over three and one-half. I will also state that from 

 the same trees, in the following August, I fed about the same number of 

 worms of the Japanese trivoltine variety, but as I did not want eggs 

 from them, and as there was no market at that time for whole cocoons, 

 I gave most of them away, and I suppose the silk made from them will 

 some day float over our State Capitol and the Capitol at Washington in 

 the shape of star spangled banners, being manufactured for that purpose 

 by Joseph Neumann, of San Francisco. 1 will also state, although it will 

 not properly be a basis for calculation of future profits, that from these 

 same trees, last winter, I sold over one thousand dollars worth of cuttings, 

 and have now growing, from the balance of the cuttings taken from them, 

 about two hundred thousand thrifty one-year-old trees. 



I will also mention that but for the unfortunate mishap to my eggs, 

 last spring, the "product of my this year's feeding would not have been 

 less than four thousand ounces. Hentsch & Berton had made me an 

 offer of three dollars and a-half an ounce for all I could make. Atten- 

 tion is now called to some successful operations for eighteen hundred 

 and sixty-nine. H. G. Ballou, of Yolo County, writes me as follows : 



"I obtained the foliage of a lot of two-year-old trees growing on the 

 tenth of an acre of land. The trees were very uneven in growth, hav- 

 ing been sadly neglected, yet they yielded six hundred pounds of leaves. 

 At this rate, the foliage from one acre would be six thousand pounds. 

 From these leaves and some obtained from another source, I fed the 

 worms from an ounce of eggs of the French variety. It took fifteen 

 hundred pounds to bring them to maturity. They produced sixty 



