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is not as good a place as San Jose* for silk worms. Let 

 us but feed them properly with fresh food, and we will 

 have everywhere the same grand result. Some time 

 after our loss, I was very glad to hear from different 

 persons to whom worms have been given, after my 

 arrival here, and all those whoJaave fresh food on hand, 

 write that the worms have done well and made fine 

 cocoons. This is the confirmation of all I had said 

 before about silk culture in Sacramento Valley. My 

 opinion is that most of our State is generally adapted 

 to silk culture. 



By the information I receive, Santa Barbara is also 

 as good as Sacramento and San Jose* valleys. During 

 my stay at Sacramento, I have not been able to show 

 the California silk culture as I wished. I had to ex- 

 plain our trouble, because my way of feeding is with 

 branches, and this is the best for California, for three 

 very good reasons : 1st, it is a great labor-saving ; 2d, 

 the leaves on them keep fresh a longer time, and allow 

 the worms to eat them all; 3d, it keeps the worms 

 properly ventilated, and this contributes largely to im- 

 prove their health. 



The reason that I have not been able to show the 

 success of California silk culture, is, that everybody 

 wished to keep every part of. their trees so as to make 

 cuttings the coming season, they would allow us to take 

 nothing but the leaves. I am very glad to see the 

 dispositions taken by our people to propagate, but it 

 gave us ten times more work. 



In regard to cuttings, I found one way to make a 



