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To encourage silk culture in California, the Legislature, in 1865–1866 [3] (another source states 1867), passed an act giving a bounty of $250 for every plantation of 5,000 mulberry trees two years old, and one of $300 for every 100,000 merchantable cocoons produced.
The South Central Farm, also known as the South Central Community Garden, was an urban farm and community garden located at East 41st and South Alameda Streets, [1] in an industrial area of South Los Angeles, California, (known as South Central Los Angeles) which was in operation between 1994 and 2006.
Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar of the domestic silkmoth is the most widely used and intensively studied silkworm.
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The outcome of the fight between Wonderful Co.'s wealthy owners and California's storied farmworker union will shape the future of a divisive new process for unionizing agricultural job sites.
California’s wealthiest farming family is proposing an expansion of industrial warehousing in Kern County that would fundamentally reshape the economy in the southern San Joaquin Valley.
The attention led to an influx of Japanese Americans (now facing strict anti-alien laws) in 1924 coming to tend to Okei's gravesite and emphasized the colony as the beginning of Japanese immigration. The 1969 governor of California, future president Ronald Reagan, declared the Wakamatsu Tea and Silk farm to be California Historical Landmark No ...
The Los Angeles County Fire Department uses two stations (#118 on Gale Avenue, and Station #43 on Stimson Avenue on the west side of town). According to the 2011 FBI uniform crime reports, with a population of 222, the City of Industry had 1,136 known property crimes, [ 72 ] giving it the highest average per-resident property crime rate (5.117 ...