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With such inducements, we will soon have a silk 

 factory in California, and our California ladies will soon, 

 I hope, wear silk raised and made by their own hands. 



To enable every one to raise mulberry trees for their 

 own use, I published in the California Farmer , nearly 

 two years ago, the culture of that tree by cuttings and 

 by seeds. 



Any information desired by any of your readers on 

 this important industry, I am ready to give. 



Yours, respectfully, L. PREVOST. 



[From the Tchama Observer, April 28, 1866.] 

 SILK CULTURE. 



SAN JOSE, CaL, April 23, 1866. 

 Editor Teliama Observer, 



DEAR SIR : I have before me a copy of your paper, 

 of the third of February last, in which you publish the 

 letter I wrote you on " Silk Culture." I do not know 

 if you have published anything since relating to that 

 important branch of industry ; if not, I consider it my 

 duty to let you know very important facts. I see with 

 great pleasure, in your editorial, that your section of 

 country is, as I expected, similar to the soil that I have 

 remarked round Sacramento City. Then you will soon 

 see- silk culture established around you ; and I will feel 



