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obliged to raise the first silk in a greenhouse, having no 

 other room that I could use. A greenhouse is a very- 

 bad place for using the worms, because there is a suffo- 

 cating heat during the day, and it is very cold at night. 

 I have been raising them that way for four years ; and 

 since, two years in the garret of my new house, which 

 is not a good place either, as I am not able to give them 

 air enough there ; but, however, it is better than the 

 greenhouse. In both places, I have succeeded in rais- 

 ing them without any sign of disease, which shows the 

 superiority of our climate, because, in many other silk 

 countries, under such circumstances, they would not 

 have been able to raise any. But, besides that, I have 

 given worms and sent silkworms' eggs to different per- 

 sons in the State, with a few verbal, and sometimes a 

 few lines of instruction in a letter, and they have all 

 succeeded in raising the silk ; and persons that have 

 never done it before, some of them, have raised their 

 silkworms in their bedroom, some in their kitchen, others 

 in different rooms, or rather a shed. All this certainly 

 demonstrates fully, that under our fine silk climate, silk- 

 worms can be raised in any room, and almost every- 

 where in California. 



IMPORTANCE OF. A COCOONERY. 



For any one that wishes to make a profitable business 

 of it, a good cocoonery is indispensable ; because, 

 although the climate allows us here to raise silkworms 

 in almost any way, it is, however, well established and 

 known, that the silkworms need plenty of air, room, 



