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in nursery rows, and leave them to grow that way one 

 year, and then transplant them. But to avoid this last 

 work, I think they would do very well, if the best cut- 

 tings and seedlings were planted so as to do the work 

 but once ; for that you must have a field well and deeply 

 plowed up before planting, as large as necessary to con- 

 tain the quantity of trees you wish to plant ; one acre 

 would hold four hundred and thirty-five trees, in plant- 

 ing them ten feet apart which is about a fair distance 

 for the California silk culture and for that culture, also, 

 they must be headed at about four feet high. 



When any other information shall be needed, I will 

 always be ready to give it. But let us produce our 

 own silk and supply other countries by all means. 

 Yours respectfully, 



L. PREVOST. 



P. S. In my letter published in the FARMER, Octo- 

 ber 28th, (No. 14) you make me say that a female lays 

 about one hundred eggs, when, in the letter I wrote 

 " three hundred eggs." L. P. 



[From the California Farmer, Doc. 2, 18G4.] 



RAISING SILKWORMS IN CALIFORNIA. 



Steadily facts begin to develop the adaptability of our 

 State as peculiarly fitted' to the raising of silkworms 

 and the manufacturing of silk, and there is 'no reason 



