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can furnish for the coining year, but I will keep always 

 what I think I need for California, and to those who will 

 raise and plant mulberry trees, I will furnish them gratis 

 their first eggs ; they will only have to let me know the 

 quantity of food they have, to guide me for the eggs to 

 send, and that for several years. This shows how I 

 wish to see competition all over our blessed State. 



The cultivation of silk is nothing, under our fine silk 

 climate, and, as you know, and your readers know, I 

 have been able ,to simplify it so much that as soon as 

 I will have the " California Silk Culture " published, 

 everybody will be able to raise silk as well as other pro- 

 ducts. I have written already that my " California 

 Silk Culture " will reduce the work on the old system 

 followed in France and Italy, considerably. I have to 

 say now in regard to that point, that I have raised this 

 last season, myself alone, over one hundred thousand 

 silkworms, and each worm making a cocoon, and this is 

 the work of eight persons in France or Italy, where silk 

 is raised so extensively, and where millions and millions 

 of families are living off this work. In Italy the pro- 

 duct of exported silk exceeds in value two-thirds of all 

 other exportations together. 



Everything is in favor of silk culture in California, 

 and this shows that Nature always does everything right, 

 and is never forgetful ; because if the climate is so fa- 

 vorable to the silkworms, it is also extremely favorable 

 with our good virgin soil, to the growth of mulberry trees, 

 which grow very well everywhere in this State, but of 

 course, like everything else, prefer certain soils. When 



