Show 4 SALT LAKE CITY nov 26 editor edior news you will oblige me by publishing in your valuable paper the abe following extracts from flom a letter I 1 have recently received from L prevost esq the great silk pioneer of california a as I 1 mink think they contain V valuable information on serle serie sericulture alture and will be interesting to your isumer numerous readers also please ile in y reply r e and oblige etc 1 l GD G D SAN JOSE cal nov 68 1 I have just read your leatter of the ath dinst it is truly very interesting I 1 thank you for the account you give of your feeding your success under the very bad and uncommon circumstances of this extraordinary year fully demonstrates to any reasoning person the tho su superiority erlo erio rity of your climate for that important pop atut culture your complete success however does not surprise me I 1 could have predicted it before as I 1 understand that you have everything in your favor for sill silk culture if I 1 were to visit your country all over I 1 could point out to you the very best localities and those that are in time to become the most important silk producing districts but you can satisfy yourself of thesa f facts acts in having always present in youil your memory that the worms need a warm atmosphere and the trees a deep light loamy soil but before planting a very deep plowing is important to save irrigating after they have started to grow kemem ber her also that when the trees are growing in the shade the leaves inhale the file oxygen of the atmosphere and it is that watery matery portion that makes the tha leaves sour hour creates the disease in the worms this is why they have the disease in europe but as soon koon as the sun shines on the leaves the oxygen is absorbed by the sun and is replaced by the carbon then the leaves are in a condition to be presented to the worm worms 1 and anti as you know and I 1 know in cali fornia and in utah at the time of feeding the silk worms we have a fi nine fine nedry dry atmosphere with a constant sunshine hine making the leaves always in a good condition to ba be presented to the worms in these few explanations is all the secret of our superiority in california and in utah for the p prodoc uc tion of the best silk in the world mr prevost now gives the words of an italian silk merchant 1461 1 I have been traveling in the silk countries I 1 have been in japan jaran already three times where I 1 am going now again to buy about one hundred thousand dollars worth of silk worm eggs for two houses in italy I 1 must accomplish my mission but I 1 expect to be back in san franceli francisco o in the beginning of december and you can basure be sure that I 1 do not go back to italy but from san ban francis co I 1 will send my eggs and as I 1 see now that this country is the home of the silk worm I 1 will stay buy land and make a plantation to raise eggs for my country for in doing so I 1 w will li be able to send tile the very best articles 11 companies of italians are now organized for the same purpose you must know that the demand for good eggs for europe is la unlimited there has been about eight hundred ounces produced at and they have been sold immediately at the good price of gold per ounce some persons have inquired if that price will pay the answer is simple the price of good cocoons is per pound and one pound of good cocoons will produce one ounce and a half haift of eggs worth goo and it pays handsomely to pro duce cocoons at a pound whatever silkworm silk worm e ages gs you have above what you need in utah if they are of the yellow annuals the variety I 1 sent you you can send them to me and I 1 will sell them for you if they are sent soon hereafter raising nothing but the best article you will sell them all not nd matter what quantity 0 SALT LALE CITY U T nov 1868 L prevost esq san jose tose cal my dear friend your kind ani and and welcome letter has just been received also the mulberry seed I 1 ordered I 1 thank you sincerely for the encouragement your dietter has given to the great work worn of establishing a branch of industry so desirable to the people who live in this inland country our geographical position renders us more or less subject to be cut off from foreign supplies even when we have money to buy with and having no export of our own to bring money to us our money supplies are also subject to be suddenly suspended at any time which would virtually separate us from the commercial world and make us poor indeed as to the things we depend on it for unless we are previously prepared to td meet such a catastrophe the production of silk will give us a light and valuable export which will represent gold in the markets of the world and at present silk and silkworm silk worm eggs appear to be our only anly export articles wo we have no bread nor meat nor fruit to spare for our increasing population will always keep pace with witti the increased spread of agriculture and the more extensive settling of the country while homemade silk will be the cheapest article of clothing our people can wear in the kitchen in the parlor and in the field I 1 send you sixty dollars i rice rico of seeds you sent me ma the box of cocoons you speak of I 1 have not yet received As you wish it I 1 will send you some cocoons to add to your permanent silk exhibition but were 1 to follow the suggestions of my own mind I 1 would wait till another year when I 1 am satisfied I 1 can produce a better sample I 1 will be obliged to you if you will sell the eggs I 1 send you they were produced from the seed you sent me please send me a few eggs of the sena bena race if you bave them I 1 will not intrude further upon your valuable time but remain yours very respectfully G D WATT aa y ve are indebted to president ent george A smith A ith for the following letter Copen copenhagen hag en nov ad 1808 f dem dew cousin george A I 1 have now visited all the tho conferences in denmark and expect to meet the saints in t the e acona scona conference the most southern in sweden on the last saturday and sunday of tho the present month in traveling and holding meetings I 1 am accompanied by bro C D fjeldsted of the Sugar hugar HouseWard he ia is quite er and a very vezy good companion for me as I 1 say but little my journey was an exceedingly pleasant one in bro ons agreeable company fromnes from new york to liverpool we were joined by bro teasdale pleasant company and good weather are the chief qualifications for fora a good journey since reaching my field of labor I 1 enjoy good health and am more than pleased with the valley elders or as many as I 1 have seen of them we are eleven altogether and I 1 hope a pretty good set of men to say that we are the best would perhaps be saying too much but I 1 hope the interest of the great causewell cau cause sewill will not suffer in this mis sion while it is in our hands bands we have in the neighborhood of five thousand members of the church in the three kingdoms and a small ant steady increase at present there are but very few who have enough means to pay their own emigration perhaps the number will increase as the time advances A number of families who emigrated last spring were very unfortunate with their children losing many by death on the tho way so that it has caused the hearts of who are left to tremble with fear for the journey but there is no comfort in remaining here as they cannot get enough for their labor to live upon and whether they live or die they want to come to zion the price of food is advancing steadily without a corresponding advance in the price of labor I 1 am aw continually beset with people both in the church and out who beg of me for the love of god to help them As ever yours truly JESSE N SMITH a SALT bake LAKE CITY nov 23 1868 E editor deseret bews last sunday I 1 delivered my eighth lecture in the mill creek ward assembly room boom and in the evening my ninth lecture in the ward meeting house in this city the lectures were listened listened to with great interest at both places the genial and hospitable bishop of theliS the mill lill Creek Ward speaks the subject and cannot be contented with less than five acres of mulberry trees for the use of his ward heskes he sees in this culture a source of great good to the people of our territory and aud ia is ready to give it his influence and aid with a right good will there are in every settlement of our country many persons persona who feel the in firmi ties of age creeping upon them making their daily tasks of labor more toilsome aa as their physical strength declines these persons especially should plant mulberry trees to provide them with a light and remunerative labor when they must need cease to toil toll at heavy work shall we all plant mulberry trees yes all our increasing thousands of children demand it of us to make muke for them a school of 01 in industry duttry to teach them lessons of self solf sustenance and material independence independency and to ease olf the immense demand that is now made upon the toiling few and that will continue to be made unless some such industry shall shail be introduced to supply labor for our youths the universal introduction of silk culture need not interfere inter lere leie with other industrial pursuits but will rather foster and encourage them brother edwin rushton was at both meetings and aided in laying t before the people the importance of entering at once into serl beri sericulture culture at mill creek ward james B R miller was chosen president of the mill creek ward operative cooperative co silk Pro producing ducin society john morgan secretary alii alli and aud john P F treasurer at the ward meeting hugh findlay was appointed president of the ward silk producing society edward davis secretary and H 1 L doremus treasurer G D WATT eagleville EVILLE nov 10 1868 editor evening netos newl dear sir realizing the great loss and disappointment that always attend the using of inferior and deteriorated seeds I 1 t thought I 1 h t tha that t a few lines iines showing the p people e ve how bow t this h I 1 can be avoided would be useful ful fui an and aud d acceptable the time will come when purer and more reliable seed will be raised among ourselves but this will not be aee ace accomplished M till some man of practical and and scientific clenti fie fic attainments takes hold of the matter and makes it a specialty A person may raise good beets carrots cabbages ac yet be entirely ignorant of the botanical affinities and sexual character of plants an indifferent and ignorant cultivator may produce good plants and vegetables from pure and fresh seed but it matters not how bow skilful and practical a man is he can never raise anything good from worthless and hybridized seed seeds plants cuttings and scion scan now be brought home to every citizen of this territory at new york prices with the addition of eight cents per pound added for postage let laet this be sounded in the ear of every man who tills a rod of ground or owns a tree seeds can be obtained from the best seeds men in the East from fifty to three hundred per cent less than poor ones can be produced out here J M Thorn beorn aco 15 john st new york city and james of rochester are honorable in their deal and as their integrity is unquestioned A letter sent to either of the above containing a remittance will bri bring ing whatever may be wanted either elther in flower vegetable or fruit seeds I 1 should say it would be a wise move in somei of the leading seeds men and nurserymen nurseryman nursery men of the east to cultivate an a acquaintance through the advertising columns of our papers with the large body of intelligent agriculturists of these mountains yours sincerely C H OLIPHANT T |