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Show SERICULTURE. Interesting News from France. Editors Herald: Last December three samples of our domcstic silkworm eggs were exported by me to France. Having received a lengthy and most important letter from my correspondent, I feel happy to pre- ing items on that subject. My correspondent is a celebrated silk-culturist of Yaucluse, one of the most beautiful and fruitful departments depart-ments of southern France. He is one of the leading importers of foreign silkworm eggs, and on that account a gold medal has been awarded' to him by the French government. The gentleman gen-tleman owns a magnificent experimental experimen-tal cocoonery to test the quality of his imported silkworm eggs. "By the only external aspect of your Utah eggs," says he, "I can foretell that they are healthy and perfectly reliable. re-liable. They will make silk of the first quality. A small portion of them have been subjected to an early experimental experi-mental hatching in my cocoonery. They will hatch on the 6th of March, and the worms will spin their cocoons by the 10th of ApriL And then I will: write again to make you acquainted with the result of my experiment and with the price I have got for your eggs." According to another statement, my correspondent firmly believes that Utah being located under about the same latitude, and enjoying the same atmospheric and climaterial influences as those of Chile in South America, our silk and eggs will always command the highest prices on the Frenoh market. mar-ket. And so great is the demand for a superior quality of silk and eggs in Europe, that China, Japan and America Ame-rica are utterly unable to supply these wants. To secure a share of that extremely rich trade, I earnestly suggest to our silk-growers to discard, as soon as convenient, con-venient, all their small size and common com-mon silk-worms and to adopt a super-J ior breed; I mean, tho large, golden-: yellow annual race. It is the very best for Utah. For fine mulberry trees and healthy silk-worm eggs, apply by letter to Mrs. Josephine Ursenbach, 16th ward, or to the subscriber. Respectfully, Louis A. Bertrand. |