Silk Culture

-In a paper read fore the Hort i ruit mal Society of California, Mis. Uittel of San Francisco strttedthat investigation has entirely satisfied hor tliat the r-hinquapin, growing on the California, mountains, will feed the wild Chinese silk worm, which safmueh more prolilic insect than the domesticated. Jn China it is raised in the open air, feeds itself in the plant ation, reproduces severa! times a year, does not cut its cocoon upon emerging but, but vith seeming intelligence, pushes the toread aaide, so as to adtnit of its exit without cutting, and tlius leaves the cocoon uninjured and in good order for reeling. Soine years ago sill culture was started in California, but fell hito decadence and efforts are now to be made to resuscitate the industiv. "The first lady in the land" is "Mother."