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ual," in which I propose to give the most approved 

 and simplified modus operandi of the culture, manage- 

 ment and propagation, by seed and cuttings, of the 

 mulberry tree, and afterwards, the culture of silk, and 

 management of the worms according to the best rules 

 of experience, in our fine, suitable climate. Besides 

 the Manual, I will, this coming season, do two public 

 feedings of the worms, going through the whole process, 

 and giving the public all the information I can, thereby 

 enabling those who desire so to do, to go into the busi- 

 ness with safety. The first feeding will be given in 

 one of our halls at San Jose*, and will begin the 15th 

 of May next. It will take six weeks to go through 

 the whole process. The second feeding will be done 

 at Sacramento on a larger scale, and will be com- 

 menced in Agricultural Hall on the 10th of July next. 

 So you will perceive that, in this way, all those who 

 wish to study and learn the subject, will have opportu- 

 nities of so doing. 



Another important point which your readers will un- 

 doubtedly be pleased to learn is, that in a few months 

 we will have, at San Francisco, a " Pioneer Silk Man- 

 ufactory." A gentleman sailed by the steamer of the 

 10th instant for New York, to buy there all the neces- 

 sary machinery, looms, etc.; and it is anticipated that 

 at our next Fair, we will exhibit our first California 

 manufactured silk. They will have several hundred 

 thousand silk cocoons to begin with, and by another 

 year we will be able to give them more work to do. 

 Until the present time the objection has been that, in 



