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and placed in the hatching box, as before, 

 for frefli worms to come on it. 



The reafon for ufing two prick'd papers 

 to each box, is to avoid taking up the eggs 

 when you remove the paper ; for many of 

 them are apt to ftick to the paper which is 

 next them, by a fine cobweb which the 

 worm begins to fpin the infbant it is hatch- 

 ed. Tvv^o pieces of gauze or Cyprus, wove 

 wide enough to let the worms pafs, would 

 fave the trouble of pricking the papers, and 

 do better, efpecially, if by means of two 

 or three flireds of fine hay, their furfaces 

 did not lie exa6lly clofe to one another; 

 this alfo fhould be taken care of when you 

 ufe prick'd paper, otherwife the holes of 

 the upper paper, by lying clofe to the un- 

 der one, might not afford a pafTage to the 

 worms to come through. In this manner 

 you muft continue to manage your worms 

 until they are all hatched, you fliould vifit 

 your boxes at leaft twice a day, in the 

 morning early and at funfet, if your worms 

 hatch fart: you may do it thrice j and be 

 fure not to mix thofe that hatch at different 

 times together ; this would create you an 

 infinite trouble in your future manage- 

 ment of feeding and cleaning them, on 



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