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happy to have contributed to the prosperity of your 

 valley. Here are the facts alluded to. 



I. I have been up to Sacramento about B 

 weeks, and I have the pleasure to inform your readers 

 that " An Act to encourage Silk Culture in California " 

 was passed at the late session of the Legislature, and is 

 in such a shape that it is an encouragement for all AV!IO 

 will engage in that rich industry, and is operative for 

 four years. This is the best act of our last Legislature 

 for the direct interest of the State. 

 IE. As I see the silk culture properly encouraged 

 by the State, here is what I have agreed to do, to 

 encourage it also : First, I will write, in a few weeks, 

 the " California Silk Manual," in which I will give the 

 culture, management, and propagation by seeds and 

 cuttings of the mulberry tree ; and after, our simplified 

 California silk culture or management of the worms. 



III. I will do two public feedings of the worms ; 

 the first in San Jose*, in our City Hall, commencing on 

 the fifteenth of May next ; and the second at Sacra- 

 mento, in Agricultural Hall, commencing on the tenth 

 of July next. It will take, at each place, to go through 

 the whole process, six weeks. This will give an oppor- 

 tunity to all those who may desire, to learn how to raise 

 silk in California. Knowing the places where I am to 

 do it, and the dates of commencing, those living in the 

 interior, in any section of the country, will go to the 

 place nearest their residence ; and if they are desirous 

 to learn, nothing will be neglected on my part, to 



