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the papers on which your eggs are, and place them in 

 tin boxes. Two sides or more of these tin boxes should 

 be of perforated tin. These boxes, to be preserved, 

 should be placed in a cool room, or dry cellar, where 

 they will not be liable to freeze : but freezing, though it 

 may injure by retarding the period of their hatching, 

 yet does not destroy them. 



Now, we have been through the whole process, and 

 you have your eggs again, ready for next year, which 

 you will take care to hatch when your mulberry trees 

 are growing finely, so you may be sure of having 

 plenty of good food for them ; and this is, in California, 

 usually about the tenth or twentieth day of June. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



TALK WITH THE FARMERS AND PLANTERS. 



Now, farmers and planters generally, in giving to 

 you all my experience, and all I know about the raising 

 of the mulberry trees and silk, I have proved that I 

 am your friend then I can have a talk with you on 

 the subject ; I will try to make it interesting and 

 useful to you, as under that head I may say whatever 

 comes to my memory about mulberry trees and silk 

 raising in our silk State, etc. To farmers and planters we 

 must look for the production of that rich article, and as 



