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us, and make the millions sent out come back with a 

 compound interest. Let us do it we can ! ! 



Respectfully yours, L. PIIEVOST. 



[From the Califorffia Farmer, Slay 10, 1866.] 

 SILKWORMS FEEDING AND CARE. 



SAN JOSE, May 8, 1866. 

 Editor California Farmer : 



MY DEAR SIR : A few days after I started to Sacra- 

 mento, where I have been nearly two months, my wife 

 sold some silkworm eggs to a party from Santa Barbara, 

 and afterwards left my two boxes of eggs in my office, 

 when they should have been kept constantly in the coolest 

 part of the cellar. On my return, I put them back 

 immediately into the cellar ; but it was too late ; they 

 were prepared to hatch having been so long a time 

 under the influence of hatching heat, and the other day 

 in going to visit them I found them mostly hatched out 

 and the balance hatching. I have now between eight 

 hundred thousand and a million of them, and as, in 

 and about San Jose there is food for hardly one hun- 

 dred thousand at present, I am obliged to go to Sacra- 

 mento, where I have food for them. Thus it will be 

 seen that it will be impossible for me to do the " public 

 feeding " at San Jose this season, as anticipated. It 

 will be reserved for next season. 



