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and raised the mulberry. Afterwards, Mr. H. Hentsch 

 imported the silkworms' eggs ; but they are of such 

 delicate nature that when they arrived here they were 

 dead ; and they met the same fate the following year. 

 But the third time, last year, he received some from 

 France in better order, and I succeeded in hatching 

 them, and the result is now known all over California. 

 I sent samples of fine silk cocoons to nearly every Fair 

 of our State. 



Every person acquainted with the silk culture, with 

 whom I conversed on the subject, all agreed that it is 

 the very best country to raise silk ; among them was 

 one of my good friends here, Mr. T. J. Muller, who 

 has been engaged in the silk-culture in Switzerland for 

 fifteen years. He had so much confidence in the silk- 

 culture in California, that he offered himself to help me 

 in the first trial. This he did ; and great praise is also 

 due him for our success ; and this success far surpassed 

 our expectations, because I was not certain that the 

 eggs would hatch. I was not prepared, and had not a 

 suitable room for the worms ; and to have succeeded 

 against such disadvantages the only explanation I can 

 give for it is that we are in California ; and, in fact, it 

 is so, because elsewhere they would have been all dead, 

 but here we have not been able to discover any disease. 



Now that we have the California silk before us, and 

 that we also know that it is so easy to raise it here, (as 

 you have seen in my letter of September 21, published 

 in No. 5 of your paper) it is of no use for me to reit- 

 erate these facts. 



