Mr, Ddahigarre on Silk Y/orms. i$/ 



with the worms into a larger box or flielf, pafled infidc and at 

 the bottom with white paper ; you muft obferve not to fill up 

 but about a third part of the bottom with your leaves ; * there 

 you feed the young worms till after their firft moulting. 



After that firft crop, you put the fame parchment again 

 upon the remaining eggs with fome other leaves over, and 

 repeat the operation till the whole hatching is come out ; it is 

 underftood in the courfe of two days and no longer. 



You will obferve not to mix the worms collected the firft 

 day, with thofe come out the fecond ; thus by keeping apart 

 the worms of the fame age, you will avoid an irkfome trouble 

 at the time of their getting upon the boughs to fpin their filk. 



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(13th Que.) What degree of heat is neceffaryto the worms 

 after their coming out ? which is the moft proper leaf for 

 them ? 



(Ans.) Provident nature takes care to cloath the filk 

 worms for the firft days of their life, with a kind of furred 

 hairs, which go off before the third moulting ; that evinces 

 enough the want of warmth ; thus we think it neceffary to 

 keep the worms in the fame degree of heat for i o or 12 days 

 after their coming out. 



* Becaufe the worms growing bigger every day, could not find room enough 

 if they were crowded into the box at firft. 



