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and minute things which are fet down, tlie 

 pradice will be found ilifficiently eafy j I 

 ihall only add that in fome of our hot co- 

 lonies, heating the pillows, and afterwards 

 managing them by the meer warmth of 

 the fun, in the day time, and at night in 

 bed, by the method before prefcribed, may 

 be found fufficient to hatch the eggs effec- 

 tually J but to expofe them naked to the 

 hot fun, I take to be a very bad method 

 in any climate, the heat being too great, 

 and neither equally imparted nor equally 

 continued. I fliiall now proceed to the ma- 

 nagement of the worms when they begin 

 to hatch. 



CHAP. IV. 



^he method of treating the Silkworms during 

 the time of hatchiitg. 



WHEN the worms begin to hatch, 

 you fliould have in readinefs two 

 pieces of paper, fitted to the infide of each 

 hatching-box, pricked full of holes as big 

 as a large pin would make. Lay thefe 

 two papers over one another in each box, 

 G 4 and 



