SILK GROWER'S MANUAL. 35 



[From the California Farmer, Oct. 28, 1864.] 



SILK CULTURE. 



SILKWORMS, SILK CULTURE, SILKWORM EGGS, ETC. 



We are happy to lay before our readers the very in- 

 teresting and valuable letter of L. Prevost, Esq., of San 

 Jose, the pioneer silkworm grower and silk culturist of 

 our State. 



We call special attention of all who feel an interest 

 in the upbuilding of our State, to the facts here pre- 

 sented. Not only have we received one order for 500 

 ounces of the eggs named, (which, at the price of $12 

 per ounce, would have been $6,000) but many other 

 orders, and we agree fully with Mr. Prevost that silk 

 culture will be one of the "greatest interests " of our 

 State. 



The CALIFORNIA FARMER has been an earnest advo- 

 cate of this branch of home industry from the very first 

 number that was issued, in January, 1854, to the 

 present time. 



In another column we publish, from the FARMER, our 

 views of some past dates, and often at that early date 

 these views were looked upon almost with contempt, as 

 being the vagaries of wild enthusiasm. 



We have ever found Mons. Prevost an earnest, zeal- 

 ous and scientific worker in this enterprise, and our 

 State owes him a great debt for what he has done to 

 bring the enterprise into so successful an issue. We 

 are glad, indeed, to herald the success of other coworkers 

 with him. 



