SILK GROWER'S MANUAL. 29 



[From the California Fanner, March 28, 1862.] 



SILK PRODUCTION" IN CALIFORNIA FAVORABLE PROS- 

 PECTSA NEW SYSTEM. 



We are truly glad to receive the following letter from 

 one who is so earnest in the cause of silk culture. As 

 Mons. Prevost says, the culture of the mulberry, the 

 rearing of silkworms, and the manufacture of silk, will 

 be one of the great branches of our industrial labor in 

 coming years, and we would fain hope that the Com- 

 mittee on Agriculture may see the importance of giving 

 attention to the subject this session of the Legislature, 

 and offering a just bounty to this valuable jnterest. We 

 hope they will make due inquiry, and not forget that 

 Mons. Prevost has done much to advance this interest, 

 and deserves an honorable mention. The many new 

 productions here named by our correspondent demand 

 a liberal bounty direct from the Legislature (the State) 

 before they can be securely introduced into a large and 

 successful cultivation. 



SAN JOSE, Feb. 24, 1862. 



EDITOR FARMER : In your valuable paper, under the 

 head of " New Productions," you ask for information 

 on "hemp, canary, seed, hops, flax, Chinese sugar-cane, 

 and West India sugar-cane, dioscorea batatas, true 

 Carolina potato, the cork-bark oak, tea and coffee." 

 I regret to see that you forget to mention the silk. 

 Knowing your opinion on that culture, I consider it as 

 an involuntary omission. This induced me to write you 

 a few lines, to bring your attention again to that subject, 



