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ciety, commencing on the fifteenth of May next; and 

 the second at Sacramento in the Agricultural Hall, 

 under the general supervision of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, commencing the tenth of July next. It 

 will take six weeks at each place to go through the 

 whole process. Thus all those in the State that wish 

 to learn how to raise silk, will have an opportunity. 

 Nothing will be neglected on my part towards instruct- 

 ing them in all I know about the business so as to ena- 

 ble them to conduct it successfully. 



I wish to impart to your numerous readers a few 

 very important facts that have occurred since my last 

 letters published about silk culture. 



1st. I have been gone some seven weeks to Sacra- 

 mento, and I have the pleasure to state that "An Act 

 encouraging Silk Culture in California," has been 

 passed, and is in such shape, that it is an encouragement 

 for all those who will engage in that business for the 

 next four years. This is the best act for the interests 

 of the State, passed in our last Legislature, because 

 our climate and soil is so superiorly adapted for silk 

 culture, that it will bring a large emigration to this 

 State. 



2d. Another important fact is, that within three 

 months, we will have at San Francisco our California 

 Pioneer Silk Manufactory. My friend, Mr. New- 

 mann, has sailed by the steamer of the tenth inst. for 

 New York, to buy there all the necessary machinery, 

 looms, etc. He and his brother, who is here also, have 

 already been in that business ten years. I expect that 



