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the old fhreds, not coming up readily to 

 the frefh leaves, by which means the leaves 

 will alfogrow withered before they are quite 

 eaten, and thus continually heaping leaves, 

 you will both wafte their food, and bury 

 many of the worms under the heap of 

 fragments. Note, for the firfl eight or ten 

 days of the worms age, let the leaves al- 

 ways be fliced. In two or three days, if 

 things have been managed well, your eggs 

 ought all to be hatched; but if you have 

 not as many hatched on the third day, 

 reckoning from the time of their beginning 

 to hatch, as you intend to feed, you muft 

 continue to keep the eggs warm as before. 

 Some, to avoid tedioufnefs in getting 

 their quantity of worms hatch'd, put a 

 confiderable greater quantity of eggs to 

 hatch, than they intend to feed, and then 

 in a day or two from their firfl coming 

 out they have all their number, and not fo 

 many different ages among their worms 

 as they would otherwife have had. What 

 eggs remain after this may either be given 

 to fomebody elfe to continue their hatch- 

 ing, who might happen to want eggs, or 

 elfe fhould be thrown away. A few eggs 

 extraordinary are of little value, and what 



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