C02 Mr. DelaUgarre on Silk Wormsl 



Gather all the ripe berries fallen down under the white 

 mulberry tree, put them for two days in a dry place, where 

 they mud be turned up and down for fear they fhould be 

 heated. After which you muftwafli them with your hands in 

 a tub, pouring over fome water from time to time, in order to 

 feparate the feeds from the mufl. Let then the water fettle 

 for a quarter of an hour, and all the ufelefs particles floating 

 above may be poured off. You mufl repeat the above wafhing 

 till the feed is well difengaged and pure. The bed feed being 

 the heaviefl, will always flay at the bottom of the tub. This 

 being done, fpread all the good feeds to dry upon a bit of 

 linen ; when dry, keep them in a clofet till the proper feafon 

 f®r fowing. Obferve, that this kind of feed never keeps longer 

 than one year. The befl time to fow the Mulberry is in the 

 beginning of April. 



Some people pretend that the feeds grow very well when 

 fowed in the very trench made for the hedge, but a long 

 experience teaches us, that it is better to raife the plants in a 

 nurfery where the ground is rich and well manured : you will 

 choofc for that purpofe, a place flickered from the north and 

 cold winds ; that place mufl be digged and prepared before 

 the winter. The befl way is to make a bed four feet wide 

 only, in order to be able to water it and pick the weeds out, 

 without trampling upon the feed's-bed. Before you water the 

 feeds, you muft fpread over fome light flraw to prevent the 



