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citizens here in San Jose, we have succeeded in having 

 that Pioneer Silk Manufacture located here. They 

 are progressing rapidly, and already a large frame 

 building is erected, where they are busy unpacking, 

 cleaning and fixing the machinery. They are now also 

 busy at the main building for the manufactory. It is 

 a brick building, forty-five by eighty, and is to be two 

 stories high. 



I have this year again exhibited reeled silk and silk 

 cocoons from different varieties, and also good samples 

 of cocoons, raised in different parts of the State, by 

 different persons, who never had silkworms in their 

 hands before, and who had all succeeded. This is con- 

 clusive proof of the superiority of our climate for silk 

 culture, because those who have never done it before 

 are liable to make many mistakes. But no matter 

 here ; the worms make their cocoons anyhow ; and now, 

 with the Manual, everybody will be enabled to under- 

 take the culture of silk with full success. 



Then let us begin it in taking first the mulberry tree, 

 which is the foundation of that rich culture. 



