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with the same result. After this second attempt I was 

 a little discouraged, finding that it was impossible to 

 import eggs in good condition, and expecting to have 

 no further use for my mulberry trees, I had the most of 

 them destroyed, keeping only a few. 



The third year, Mr. Hentsch imported eggs again 

 from the same place, and at the same time from France. 

 I was then very sorry to have destroyed so many of 

 my mulberry trees, as the eggs from France proved to 

 be in good condition, and hatched out very well. At 

 that time I had a friend here, Mr. Miller, who was a 

 competent silk cultivator, to whom I showed the eggs. 

 He pronounced them good, and also agreed, for the 

 first time, to help me, which he did. The worms did 

 well, and produced fine cocoons of silk of the first qual- 

 ity, as I can prove by certificates from the two highest 

 silk societies in Europe, to whom silk and silk cocoons 

 had been sent to be tested. 



Up to this time we have not been able to discover 

 any indications of disease, which is most extraordinary ; 

 it must be the good influence of the climate of Califor- 

 nia operating as we expected. As I had no other room 

 for the purpose, I have been obliged to raise the worms 

 in a green house, which was extremely hot in daytime, 

 and nearly freezing at night. Under such unfavorable 

 circumstances, not one worm would have lived in Eu- 

 rope. Now, any thinking man can judge what success 

 we might reasonably expect if we had a proper room 

 in which to raise them. 



The first year 1 made silk was in 1860. I sentbou- 



