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will also produce more silk. It requires, generally, 

 some three hundred cocoons to a pound ; but I should 

 not be surprised to find that we will need here no more 

 than about two hundred and fifty. 



Any person that will only take into consideration the 

 'above items must be convinced that we can not only 

 furnish the silk here as cheap as in Europe, but cheaper. 

 Truly yours, L. PREVOST. 



[From the California Farmer, Oct. 26, I860.] 

 SILKWORMS. 



One of the finest and most important exhibitions, 

 made at San Jose, was the temple for the silkworms, 

 their cocoons, and the silk. Mons. Prevost deserves 

 very great credit for his zeal and energy in carrying on 

 this great work. A very neat arching temple of ever- 

 greens and flowers was made, and in these arches were 

 festoons of white and yellow cocoons, forming a gay 

 appearance. In the temple stood three pyramids of the 

 cocoons, as they were made in the group on branches 

 of the shrub on which they were built. In front of the 

 temple were the reels of floss, in their shining threads. 

 The whole thing is now in its infancy, but in coming 

 years will become a type of various manufactories of 

 the rich silks and satins that our women of the Golden 

 State will wear. To Mons. Prevost we shall ever ac- 



