Silk Culture in California
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A 1902 Overland Monthly article by Carrie Williams arguing that California's climate and soil suit commercial silk production. She recounts early silk-raising efforts from the 1850s and 1860s, including the 1860 exhibit at the Mechanics' Fair in San Jose. She also describes her own experience in San Diego raising silkworms year-round and storing eggs in cold storage, and she discusses economics, acreage, education, and a federal silk-culture project in South Carolina. Six pages with halftone photographs of a rearing canopy and tray, silkworms, moths and cocoons, and reeling apparatus with native silk skeins.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1902
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 6
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