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produced from the bark ; it looks as fine, and as good 

 and strong as the floss silk from the cocoons. 



llth. It is very valuable for feeding milch cows. 

 Every ont has seen in our principal papers, under the 

 heading of mulberry for forage, that " a German farm- r 

 of Ohio, during the late season of drought, cut down a 

 number of black mulberry trees for his cows, and was 

 surprised to find that they gave more and richer milk 

 than when fed on grass ; the butter had a peculiarly 

 pleasant flavor. In California this fact may be of great 

 value ; the tree,by growing deep into the earth, read us 

 more moisture, and can resist drought better than grass, 

 and the dairyman would t{ws be enabled to provide 

 green forage the year round, even frmn dry soil." Many 

 farmers were ruined by the loss of their cattle, not long 

 ago, when we had been two years without rain, and then 

 if we had mulberry trees jJantcd everywhere, we could 

 have saved those thousands of thousands of cattle that 

 perished from hunger. Let us begin, then, to plant 

 everywhere, and such a calamity will never occur again. 



12th. As an ornamental tree it ought to be planted 

 everywhere, because there is none that can be compared 

 to it. We are planting in California a great quantity of 

 ugly and common trees, that are good for nothing, and 

 that are called ornamental trees, when they really orna- 

 ment nothing at all, and which are certainly very far 

 from being as fine looking and ornamental as the mul- 

 berry tree. Some of these common trees, instead of 

 being ornamental, I consider a real and .regular nui- 

 mnc.e. Such is the cotton wood tree, that we find planted 



