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through. The box ought to be of clean 

 firr, fuch as wafer boxes or the like. 



The eggs of different bags ought not to 

 be mixed, becaufe they may have received 

 different degrees of heat and fo w^ould 

 hatch unequally. The bell time of putting 

 the eggs into thefe boxes is jufl before you 

 go to bed, that you may put them under 

 your bolfter warmed as was before dire6led ; 

 covering the box clofe with its lid, which 

 lid ought not to come fo clofe to tlie eggs, 

 but that there fhall be fufficient room to 

 lay the iliced leaves of the mulberry over- 

 the worms when they begin to hatch. 



The next morning early, after having 

 put your eggs into this box, open it, and, 

 if the worms have not yet begun to come 

 out, return the box under the bed-cloaths, 

 where they may remain about two houi's 

 after you have left the bed, for about fo 

 long a fufficient heat will remain ; after 

 which the boxes muff be placed between 

 two pillows heated very moderately, for a 

 fniall over-degree of heat would injure the 

 worms when near hatching, and you muff 

 have other pillows ready warmed, as thefe 

 cool, and fo continue them, all day be- 

 4 tween 



