156 THE SILK 



" 4th day. Six pounds twelve ounces of chopped 

 leaves should be given. For the quantity should be 

 diminished as the appetite increases. The first meal 

 should be of about two pounds four ounces, and the 

 other meals should decrease in proportion as the 

 quantity of leaves given before, appears not to have 

 been thoroughly eaten. 



" 5th day. This day, one pound and a half of 

 young leaves, chopped small, will be about sufficient. 

 They should be scattered very lightly several times 

 in the day, on the sheets of paper, where there ap- 

 pears still to be worms feeding. Should the worms 

 have left off feeding, it would be unnecessary to 

 distribute any further quantity. Towards the end 

 of the day, the wo^ms are torpid ; a few begin to re- 

 vive. 



" 6th day. For this day will be needed nine 

 pounds of tender shoots, and nine pounds of ten- 

 der leaves of the Mulberry, well picked and chopped 

 small. 



"7th day. Thirty pounds of chopped leaves will 

 be required to-day. This quantity divided into four 

 portions, should be given at intervals of six hours, 

 the two first meals less plentiful than the two remain- 

 ing. 



" 8th day. Thirty-three pounds of fine chopped 

 leaves, well picked, will be necessary, and this time 

 the two first meals should be the largest. 



" 9th day. This day only nine pounds of picked 



