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[From the California Farmer, Feb. 15, 1861.] 

 THE SILKWORM AND SILK CULTURE. 



We are pleased to learn of the increasing interest 

 manifested for this branch of industry, which to our 

 State in its future years, will be one of great mag- 

 nitude. 



The demand for mulberry trees has taken all from 

 the nurseries that were for sale. It has generally been 

 supposed that the Morus Multicaulis is the chief variety 

 for the silkworm ; this is not so. The cocoons are 

 much superior (so we are informed by the best authori- 

 ities) when the worms are fed upon the Morus Alba, 

 and the Morus Moretti. These, with a small portion 

 of the Multicaulis^ will be the food of silk-worms in this 

 State. 



As we have often said, we are confident of the suc- 

 cess of silk manufactures in California, and ere ten 

 years from this date, the wives, daughters and sisters 

 of the Golden State will be clothed in robes of silk, 

 manufactured in our own State. 



We trust, if our Chief Magistrate cannot find time 

 or opportunities to look after the manufacturing inter- 

 ests of our State, that some of our legislators will, 

 and that there may be such legislation for these interests 

 as they demand. 



In the present condition of this matter now while 

 many persons are beginning to look round and see what 

 can be done, while many are planting the seed of the 

 mulberry and the tree also, we ask, would it not be a 



