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[Farmer, September 6, 1866.] 

 MANUFACTURE AND CULTURE OF SILK NEW SERIES. 



LETTER NUMBER ONE. BY L. PREVOST. 



SAN JOSE, Sept. 8, 1866. 

 COL. WARREN, Editor California Farmer : 



DEAR SIR: 



PIONEER SILK MANUFACTORY. 



It pleased me very much to see in your last number 

 an article on our " Pioneer Silk Manufactory." I will 

 avail myself of the opportunity to write to-day on that 

 important subject, which I consider as a great event for 

 the silk cause in California, and consequently will ad- 

 vance greatly the interests of the State. It furnishes us 

 the means of beginning that great work of retaining 

 among us these seven millions of dollars sent out annu- 

 ally for importing silk for our ladies. It settles the ques- 

 tion, as everybody can see, that we have now at home 

 a market for all the cocoons we can produce.. Our 

 friends, Meyer & Newman, in offering to manufacture 

 our silk, will induce a great many to go into its culture. 



SELECTION OF SOIL FOR THE MULBERRY. 



To all those who are about to start in that rich in- 

 dustry, I desire to tell them for their benefit that the 

 most important point to begin with is the selection of 

 the soil for the mulberry. It is a fact that it grows 

 most any where in California, but more or less, a deep 

 rich, light, loamy soil is needed : in such a case we can 



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