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15th. Even one of the above facts is enough to prove 

 that it is a useful tree ; but all these facts together are 

 more than sufficient to persuade any reasoning person 

 that the mulberry tree ought to be planted everywhere 

 in California : but it is not all, and we come now to the 

 most important point. Besides the above facts in its 

 favor, it is the tree that produces that wholesome food 

 for the insect that produces the silk, which is the finest 

 and richest of all fabrics , and which has made so many 

 countries rich ; and as California is found to be so favor- 

 able to that culture, we will certainly be the first and 

 most important silk State of the Union. 



Now, I have said, at the beginning of that chapter, 

 that the mulberry tree is the best, the most useful and 

 valuable of all the trees known. I am in hope that all 

 my readers will now agree with me that it is the truth, 

 as I think it would be very difficult to find another tree 

 of such importance. 



Now, wo will leave the mulberry tree for the silk- 

 worms. 



CHAPTER X. 



COCOONEUY, OR MAGUANERIE BUILDING, TO RAISE THE 

 SILKWORMS IN. 



Since 1860 I have been raising silk in California, but 

 never had the means to have a cocoonery. I have been 



