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2d. They do not like to eat warm leaves ; 



3d. The newly hatched worms do not like the smell of 

 fish, fried in a pan ; 



4th. They do not like to be in the neighborhood of 

 persons who pound rice in mortars ; 



5th. They do not like to hear strokes on sonorous bodies ; 



6th. A woman, who has borne a child within a month, 

 ought not to be the matron of silk worms; that is to 

 say : ought not to be charged with the raising of silk 

 worms ; 



7th. They dislike men, who smell of wine, to give them 

 food, to transport them from one place to another, or to 

 spread them on hurdles ; 



8th. From the time they are hatched, until maturity, the 

 silk worms dread smoke and odorous exhalations ; 



9th. They do not like to have skin or hair burnt near 

 them; 



10th. They do not like the smell of fish, musk, or the 

 odor of certain herbaceous animals, (like the goat, &c;) 



llth. They do not like to have a window, exposed to the 

 wind, to be opened during the day ; 



] 2th. They do not like to receive the rays of the setting 

 sun ; 



13th. They do not like, when the temperature of their 

 habitation is warm, to have a sudden cold or violent wind 

 introduced there ; 



14th. When their habitation is cool, they do not like a 

 sudden change to excessive heat ; 



15th, They do not like dirty and slovenly persons to 

 \ enter their room ; 



16th. Care must be taken to keep all noxious effluvia 

 and filth distant from the apartments of the silk worms. 



