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Show NUUlCl lil t It K, lulcreitiiig from La Uello Jt'inuce. To Salt Lake Htrald: The following letter has been written mo by tho editor of a leading silk journal jour-nal of tho great silk-mart of the world. Uopiog that this communication will prove acceptable to my homo correspondents corres-pondents and to your readers, please publish it in your column? as soon as eonvoniont. LOUIS A. 13ERTUAND. Lyons, 10th December, 1872. Pear Sir,--After being detained inadvertently in-advertently nearly two months out of my bands, your esteemed letter of tho 5th of last October is laying before me. I commenco by informing you that my journal is open to all communications that you may think proper to favor me with on your local . sericulture In reference to tho price which has been offered to you by a French stlk- rower, 1 advise you to accept it ; but I wiil make my best exertions to obtain a highoi price for tho eggs of your next erp. 1 he price of tiff y francs (ten dollars) per ounce, mentioned by you as having hav-ing been granted by a French siik-eulturist siik-eulturist to tho lamented M.Louis Provost, Pro-vost, cf California, for his ecus, is en tirely without a precedent io the Kuropoan markets; it was a chance price, or rather a foolish ono which will never be obtained by 'any foreign eges. In rai.-ing a pure and robust race of silkworms, shun the rock or tho sandbank sand-bank upon which nine-tenths of the siik-: owcrs have been broken in Arner-ici; Arner-ici; do nit produce too many egs in your nurseries. In 80 doing, your worms will escape every kind tf diseases. dis-eases. With a limited production and with middle prices, you will soin be able to e-oquer an enviable standing suionc.the silk producicg countries of the world. hen you will otiT at nriidle prices I tell you again, hoalihy : silkworm eggs to the European markets, mark-ets, bo assured that the demand for them will always rcmiin unlimited. I fully comprehend yux anxiety to obtain a moro extended notoriety for i ymr i-e;j, arid your desire to increase : toe number of your ce respondents, i No:bing is Fa?:?- for you. Please I send on by the next mail a sample of' ; your eegs. and a specimen of your ! ' perforated cvexns, as a typo. They ' I will be tested by four or five French ) . icSentul silk growers and, if found ! heal;h your eges will be warmiy i roeraiuiended by them to the public. I I shouid be much pleased to receive j from you some information oa the j comuierjiai rehirious of Utah w'th i France, espeoialiv in re fere doc :o tha -, silk macufactured goods, even on the ; : retail tra.ie, as. for ia-:an-.-;, oa the ; the prrsre.-tj! i'.t the falc of silk hand- ! Kerch'.ets toa.ardi. crav.i:s. rib'wes, ! i dresses, ? . c. And, fiaaily. I d.'s:rc to know what are the me roan- ; ti e houses 0: your e.;y with wnich I, cou'd eorrespoad and trade with se- l curiry. Yours, A. B, j |