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ful to the public, remains unexplained, I shall feel 

 great pleasure in answering jour interrogatories. 



Yours, etc. 



L. PREVOST. 



[From the San Jose Mercury, April 26, 1866. ] 

 SILK CULTURE. 



Editor Mercury : 



DEAR SIR : In your last issue you have an article 

 from the daily Union of Sacramento, about silk cul- 

 ture, stating that I am going, this summer, to establish 

 a cocoonery or feeding of the worms before the public 

 in the agricultural hall there. 



This is true ; but it is very important to all those 

 residing nearer to San Josd than Sacramento, to know 

 that I will give a public exhibition of the process of silk 

 culture here first, and go to Sacramento after. These 

 are my arrangements, and what I have agreed to do. 



1st. I will write first the " California Silk Manual," 

 in which I will give the culture, management, and 

 propagation by seed and cuttings of the mulberry tree ; 

 and afterwards the California silk culture, or manage- 

 ment of the worms, according to my simplified method 

 for our fine. climate. 



2d. I will do two public feedings of the worms, the 

 first at San Jose, at our City Hall, under the general 

 supervision of our Santa Clara Valley Agricultural So- 



