Article · 6 pages
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.