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be so easily raised. I am very happy to be able to 

 prove that your opinion was well founded. Persevere, 

 and continue to do all you can to induce the people of 

 California to raise their own material, and keep their 

 money. They can do it, because we canproduce every- 

 thing in this country ; there is no other like it. 

 It is under that impression that I remain, 



Yours truly, v L. PREVOST. 



[From the California Farmer, Sep. 9, 1864.] 

 THE SILK WORM ENTERPRISE. 



SAN JOSE, August 28, 1864. 

 EDITOR CALIFORNIA FARMER : 



Your favor of yesterday is just received, and accord- 

 ing to your wishes I answer it immediately. You ask 

 me for some hundreds of ounces of silkworms' eggs, for 

 a gentleman in Mexico. I am sorry that I can not fur- 

 nish so many ounces. I only have a few ounces of my 

 last crop say three or four to dispose of, as I only 

 had raised a small lot this year, to keep up a supply of 

 fresh eggs. Last year I had several orders for silk- 

 worm eggs, and I sold all I could dispose of, keeping 

 only .a small lot for myself. 



Last year, I had an order from Italy, for one hundred 

 pounds, but it was impossible for me to do anything 

 toward that big order. If I could have had so many it 

 would have been a little fortune for me. Only think of 



