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every purpose, and which can afterwards be used for the 

 storage of grain, etc. Neither is any outlay required 

 for artificial heat. I simply transfer the eggs from the 

 cellar to the garret, and the heat of the sun through the 

 roof will make them hatch hi three days. But above 

 all is* that by the absence of all elaborate apparatus, etc., 

 thus simplifying the culture of silkworms, one person 

 here can do the work of eight under the old system. 

 You will remember I am not giving you crude ideas, 

 but settled facts ; and any reasoning person reflecting 

 for a moment, considering the above named points, can- 

 not fail to see the great advantages we have over all 

 other silk-growing countries, not only raising our silk at 

 half the usual cost, but as for reasons before given, 

 being a superior article, we will get the highest market 

 price. Then let us stop sending our millions to foreign 

 countries, estimated at not less than from eight to ten 

 millions of dollars annually ; for as the Southern States 

 are adapted to the raising of cotton and we have our 

 cotton States so let California be our silk State. To 

 parties in any part of the world who wish to engage in a 

 sure and profitable business, easily understood, and one 

 in which young and old can alike engage, I can say, 

 come to California and raise silk. As soon as there is 

 enough silk cultivated here we will have our domestic 

 manufactories, and the ladies of California can be justly 

 proud of wearing silk raised and manufactured in our 

 own State. That this may be so, and that I can see 

 our own manufactured silk shipped to other countries, 

 bringing hi return the thousands we now send away, are 

 the wishes of your correspondent." 



