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drawer, half of them muft be placed In 

 the fecond drawer, and they will fill both 

 thefe by the time they have pafled their 

 fecond moult j m the fame manner the 

 fecond hatched will fill the third and 

 fourth draweis, and the third hatched will 

 fill the fifth and fixth, and then they may 

 be diftributed upon the large ftands. 



Thus you fee the fix drawers will con- 

 tain all the worms which come from your 

 three ounces of eggs, without confounding 

 different hatchings. I fuppofe that the 

 worms will occupy thrice the fpace after 

 each moulting that they occupied at the 

 moult foregoing, which I believe is pretty 

 nigh the truth, and will hold through all 

 the different moults, and alfo from the 

 fourth moult to the time of their fpinning j 

 and I have run through this method only 

 as a fample of the regularity which, in 

 fome degree, fhould be ufed through the 

 whole procefs of feeding filk worms, when 

 they are hatched at different times. 



The drawers above-mentioned may be 

 made of any flight materials, fuch as laths, 

 vv^ith paper bottoms, fupported by two or 

 three firings or flicks, to hinder the paper 

 from fwagging; or tliey may be made of 



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