| Show seny sery sericulture CULTURE IMPORTANT correspondence FROM LA bellm FRANCE editor deseret news in my belief that the following extracts from my last communication from fance dated sept 2 will prove acceptable to my home correspondents and to the friends frienda of the silk cause in general I 1 take pleasure in presenting them monsieur louis louls A bertrand salt sait lake city idear dear sir your last three friendly and interesting letters came safely to band hand after a lengthy travel in europe I 1 take much pleasure in transmit ting to you tue information you desire to receive from me to help you in do de vo loping the interests interest of the great silk cause in the different dif dlf states of north america among the numberless varieties of mul mui mulberry borry trees cultivated in francette Franc ethe 18 s now the nal ost popular lir on account of its large and succulent leaves they constitute conati tute exclusively the food of the silkworms until their first moult ing n g the ahoo a white japanese seedling la also extensively cultivated by our silk growers the worms are extravagantly trava gantly fond of its ita tender and healthy leaves the culture of the morus Multi cautis caulis after having been prosecuted in dlf dif erent countries countr les ies of europe has been entirely abandoned because the leaves of that mulberry y are worthless to teed feed the worms the mulberry trees which furnish the leaves to feed the imported eggs of my early experiments are cultivated in a greenhouse green house where the mean temperature is maintained at 65 fa ren renholt helt helb the 1 I 1 the syrian and other yellow annu nunu annuala w raised in utah are positively inferior varieties of worms they tiley ought to be discarded by your silk culturists in reference to the white annuals japan can furnish to you white uhe or green reen eggs tolerably healthy I 1 import annually from japan large quantities of 0 thess these annuals tolerably healthy their white cocoons are preferable to the green ones but they are very inferior to the splendid yellow cocoons I 1 raised last season with your eggs I 1 should be very glad to receive a sample of the white european annuals mentioned in your last favor 1 I like liko much your mode of feeding your worms with witt small ismall branches the yell w in nuala raised by you constitute a most eacel excellent fent race hev hey rhey are ate endowed I 1 tt tel it lynu you this A is over again with a very great robustness they produce large and magnificent cocoons and they enjoy per feet health 1 I iwas wms waa extremely sorry in reading in your interesting report the failure experienced perien ced last bleason by the world renowned president brigham young in his bis among the various and more or less fess direct causes of this awful mortality ot of worms as they have been i ably deduced by yourself the inferior quality of the eggs was I 1 think the chiet ailef cause in my firm belief that utah will promptly become a great silk growing state I 1 earnestly advise you and all your frien frion friends ds to select in a perfectly healthy race the eggs destined to be hatched in your nurseries reliable eggs constitute the very found dation of every successful breeding sine bine bince since you eyou desire to consult the last writings on sericulture which have been published in france I 1 mail this day to your address a small pamphlet written by me on en the japanese races and I 1 will shortly send to you a practical work written and published by me two years ago for the special benefit of the american silk culturists you will find in this book a vast amount of useful information and various new notions which you are authorized to publish in my name in your local press preas the winter being the only season during which the foreign silkworm eggs can safely travel please ship all ali those which you can spare for me in a strong wooden case A tin box is use less forward your eggs by express at the beginning of december Da dace Doce cember I 1 offer to you IS 18 francs per 25 grammes about four dollars in gold per ounce for any quantity of utah eggs you can ship and I 1 am ready to send a remittance in cash in the manner most moat acceptable to you I 1 tell your friends in utah to plant next spring as aa many mulberry mul mui berry berny trees as possible i yours youra ao A M 2 I 1 feel happy in communicating to our silk culturists the above foreign corres pon dence open to the exportation of our most excellent silkworm eggs according to the statement of my correspondent correspond ent a leading french and importer of foreign eggs ours are far superior to those imported from japan which is considered the only silk rais ing country which can now produce healthy silkworm eggs for the european markets therefore let every breader broader let every farmer in utah start a small ysmall nursery next spring by sowing it a few ounces of mulberry seed it is useless to plant cuttings obtained form our common seedlings because they will vill not grow we want only five or six mil mii liona of mulberry trees to enable us ua to attain to a very high standing among the silk producing countries of the world such being my my firm belief I 1 have just imp arted from france a fresh supply of mulberry seeds for sale they are perfectly reliable terms twelve dollars per pound in currency one dollar and a half per ounce for the if and one dollar for the and white rose of lombardy respectfully Respect fally yours I 1 toms loans A ABERTRAND bertra D |
