VI INDEX. 



CHAPTER. PAGB. 



Plan of a California Cocoonery 195 



11. Silkworms, the different varieties. 198 



12. Modes of Raising Silk in different countries .- . 202 



13. Amount of Food 210 



14: Observations on feeding and quality of food 213 



15. Treatment of the Silkworms according to our climate.. . .217 



The feeding with branches 218 



Hatching, different ages, care, etc 220 



Formation of the Cocoons 225 



Gathering of the Cocoons 226 



Select your Cocoons for Eggs 228 



How to keep the Eggs 231 



1 6. Talk with farmers and planters 231 



Product per acre 236 



Benevolent Societies, Orphans, etc 237 



Going into that business with a small capital 240 



Persons who have been successful already 242 



Our Pioneer Silk manufacture. . . .243 



