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his efforts and free offering of time and money to pre- 

 pare the way for the manufacture of wine, and also of 

 sugar, from the sugar-beet, to which he refers in his let- 

 ters, and which we know as true, as we remember well 

 his untiring efforts then in behalf of both enterprises. 

 It is such labors and such men that our Legislature 

 should encourage by a suitable token ; and we hope the 

 time is not far distant when such labors will be duly 

 rewarded. 



SAN JOSE, November 22, 1860. 



EDITOR FARMER Dear Sir : I have always observed 

 in your paper the great interest you take in our home 

 industry , or in other words, the prosperity of our young 

 State, by advocating every new production that would 

 save us from importing. We concur in the same ideas 

 on that point. My thoughts and efforts always have 

 been towards that great cause. Besides other things, I 

 have from the beginning advocated the manufacture of 

 wine. I also spent time and money to help M. Deles- 

 sert establish the sugar-beet manufacture, that we are 

 bound to have also in California. 



For the past six or seven years, in observing the na- 

 ture of our fine climate, and seeing that the enemies of 

 silkworms were not here, I always said that we were in 

 the best silk country in the world ; and consulting with 

 Mr. H. Hentsch, who was exactly of the same opinion, 

 we then imported the seeds of the best varieties of mul- 

 berry for the feeding of the worms. I have sown them 



