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Show bLUUCLl.TLUK. I iK i-;t-( 1 n g New from I 'in int. j Editor llcraht : I In my firm belief that I ho sericulture : I will perfectly succeed in Utah, and ! ! will sooner or later furnish to our peo- j ; p'.o several rich articles of exportation, I I wrote last September to the leading : .si I k-g rowers of h'raucc in order to open ! I the market of my,native land to our i domestic silkworm eggs. 1 iurpo.-o to j j state briefly, in this paper, the result : of my iirst communication to obtain , this "desirable effect. Thieo letters ; came lately to hand from my new for- j eign correspondents, i Mr. Nieod, jun., of Annomiy, near j Lyons, tho great siik mart of the 1 ' world, informs me that the Japanese silkworm eggs constitute almost the ' only healthy ones which arc now iai-! iai-! ported iii!o France. These eggs have , I been sold last season at twenty francs (four dollars iu gold) per card. Jvach ; card contains about twenty grammes of eges. Oousenueutlv they were worth one I'rune (twenty cents) per gramme. About twenty-five grammes mako an Kngli.Ji pound. II" 1 desire, he s;iys, lo .seud to him lifty or sixty ounces of Utah silkworm eggs, wit ii a sample of our eoeoons for sale, they must reach him before the end of January. The value of each parcel ought lo ho fixed beforehand, but with t ho privilege of lowering a little in ease that ho could not reach our set prices. Mr. Kuiile, count de liclz, formerly a celebrated silk eullurist, now holding a high oftiea "au Credit Koneier" (a mighty financial institution of J'aris), has been much pleased with my lir.-t correspondence. Having communicated this letter to the "Central Aeri- t cultural tjoeiely of Franeo,'' it has . been prnnouiiced worthy of be- 1 ing inserted in its general records 1 fomjt.$-nn!a.. UencLibrtb, every : eorrespondenej of mine on the sUk business or on any agricultural subject j will bo presented by him to this parent soctely. This nobleman informs me j that, since twenty years, a new malady, called 'Tebriuo," attacks the millers, j the eggs and, linally, the worms. It j desolates every eoeooucry, in destroy-J ing annually millions upon millions of these precious insects, and has com- 1 pellcd tho European silk-gro'.veis to export very expensively from Japan large qua rj'-i tics oi' fresh tilk worm eggs, i These eggs produce an inferior q uality ' of silk. The magnificent h'reneh races i of tho Cevcnnes mountains have entirely en-tirely run out. liut ho will mako his best exertions in order that our silk-I silk-I worm eggs might be c .ire fully and im-I im-I partially tested, next spriog in his own cocooneries. This genial and inlluen-' inlluen-' tial gcntlcrunn will mightily contribute ! to open the French market to the tiade of Utah. Mr. Eugene Kobert, owner of a most important institution in tho south of France, well known under its name of "E:p:rimental Cocoonery," and his bosom friend, Mr. Guerin Meuncvillc, a world renowned professor profess-or of entomology, have jointly honored mo with a speedy auswer. They arc both most distinguished writers. They ' kind'y oncourago me to persevere in my humble .efforts to initiate the citizens citi-zens of my adopted country to the mysteries of sericulture. These powerful power-ful co-laborers in the great silk cause foretell, in the following words, the future of this rich industry in our mountain home : "Utah, being the home of gold, srrl the silk, if the history is true, having been sold in the former times for the same wcicht iti gold, will certainly offer some d ly the .spectacle of the reirdon of this twofold two-fold auriienius product." To conclude, 1 am iufbrmed by these gentlemen that the average prices ol ihe domestic and foreign silkworm eggs in the French market have ranged hist season, as usually, between lifteen and twenty-live francs (three and five dollars dol-lars in gold) per ounce of twenty-five grammes, according to the fame of the eounuies from whence they came. Silk growers of Utah, 1 feel happy in presenting to you the above interesting interest-ing information. Wlirvoever has for sale :d h:verni cies, is earnestly invited to send immediately by the mail, and to my address, a sample of !ih eoeooiis with a lew lines. Very respectfully yours, Lot'is A. liKtmtANH. |