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PART II. 



ON THE RAISING OF SILK WORMS, IN OPEN AIR UPON 



HEDGES. 



BY PETER DELABIGARRE, E/q. 



AFTER a long and tedious defcrlption of the various cares 

 and expences attending the befl mode of raifmg filk worms 

 within doors, we feel an agreeable relaxation in relinqui filing 

 art, to come into the arms of nature. — Let us play with her 

 eafy ways ; let us admire how little trouble is required to 

 obtain plenteous favours from her rich bofom ! 



The firft flep is to have a white Mulberry hedge, three years 

 old at lead, and four or five feet high. For the mode of planting 

 fuch an hedge, we would have referred our readers to a 

 communication made to the Agricultural Society of New- 

 York, on the utility of white Mulberry trees in making hedges ; 

 but confidering the trouble of getting that communication 

 among fo many other pieces prefented to the fociety, we 

 thought it preferable to give here an extra6: of it, with fome 

 neceffary additions. 



Around the field to be enclofed, dig a ditch three feet wide 

 and two feet deep, in the fall of the year : then in the momh 



