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" All our farmers, who are on their own land, ought 

 to select the very best part of it to plant mulberry 

 trees, as the raising of silk can be done by their chil- 

 dren. They will find that, in that culture, we have no 

 competition to fear. On the contrary, the more en- 

 gaged in it the better, as we have the whole world for 

 our market." 



[From the Sacramento Daily Union, July 12, 1866.] 

 THE SILKWORMS AT AGRICULTURAL HALL. 



Messrs. Editors : I have been engaged in feeding 

 silkworms, and raising silk in California, since 1860, 

 and have never seen any disease among my worms until 

 this year, at Sacramento, and I feel it to be my duty to 

 state to the public some of the facts connected with my 

 effort at Sacramento, and the reasons of my trouble and 

 disease among the worms. 



In the first place, they hatched by an accident, which 

 I have heretofore explained, some two months before I 

 intended to have them ; but as I had agreed to make a 

 public feeding at Sacramento, to assist in introducing 

 the business in the State, I thought it best to undertake 

 it, even though I had some doubts about its success. 

 The worms, hatching as they did, could not be properly 

 separated, and those of the same age only kept together, 

 as should be the case ; but I was compelled to keep and 

 feed all together, though sojne were over a week older 



