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Europe, that give me information about everything per- 

 taining to silk transactions in silk and prices all over 

 the different silk countries ; and as we are becoming a 

 silk country also, I will translate, from time to time, for 

 the benefit of our California silk growers, the articles 

 that I may find of some interest for them, and publish 

 them in our leading papers. 



35th. America, by the skill and ingenuity of her peo- 

 ple, has been enabled to compete with India and China, 

 and even with the world, in the culture and manufacture 

 of cotton ; is there an American who can doubt now 

 that we shall do the same ere long with the silk ? 



36th. In all other works on silk raising, they have 

 chapters on the diseases of the worms. We have no 

 need in our California Silk Manual of such chapter, be- 

 cause, as long as we shall be able to give our worms fresh 

 food from mulberry trees that are growing under the 

 genial rays of our sun, no disease can be expected, as 

 the disease is in the food. It is my positive opinion, 

 that these watery leaves, taken from trees, growing most 

 the time in the shade, in a wet, damp atmosphere, 

 are what create the disease ; I say, from trees growing 

 in the shade, because, as long as the sun's rays do not 

 strike on them, they are in the shade, no matter if it is 

 caused by the clouds or anything else. 



37th. As I have many visitors coming for information 

 about silk, and other things to attend, I have but little 

 time left to me : thus I have been obliged to write this 

 Manual in a hurry, and may have omitted some points ; 

 but of anything that shall come to my knowledge of 



