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of it, iinlefs it be a very little after your 

 eggs have begun to hatch, and this only 

 to avoid erring on the extreme of too much 

 heat, which would at that time injure the 

 worms which were hatched or near* hatch- 

 ing. 



CHAP. III. 



^he method of hatching the Silkworms eggs^ 



TH E nature of the filk worm's eggs 

 is fuch, that like thofe of other in- 

 fects, they will as the weather advances in 

 warmth hatch of themfelves j but as, in this 

 manner, there would be a great diftance of 

 time between thofe that hatched firfl, and 

 thofe that hatched laft, infomuch that,as fome 

 would every minute be hatching, it would 

 be impoffible to attend or collect them to- 

 gether, or afterwards to feed them, on ac- 

 count of their being fick at different times -, 

 therefore it is necelfary to make ufe of ar- 

 tificial warmth in order that numbers may 

 be hatch'd at one time, and that your 

 whole quantity of eggs may come out at 

 leaft in two or three days, fo that you may 



be 



