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keep them in the rnoft convenient manner, 

 it will abridge and methodize the trouble 

 of feeding and cleaning them, and this 

 being a great part of the labour attending 

 filkvvorms, every thing that fhortens or 

 cafes it, Vvhether by what I have or fhall 

 hereafter mention, or by vi^hat the practi- 

 tioner fliall himfelf find out, is to be con- 

 fid ered as a material point. 



Flate I. Fig. I. fnews the flruclure of 

 the flands where the filkworms are to be 

 fed when they grow large and require 

 much room. It is a fort of fcaffolding 

 compofed of ftreight poles tied together. 

 Its breadth A D three or four feet ; its 

 length A C may be continued according to 

 the dimenfions of the room which contains 

 it ; its height A E about five feet, unlefs 

 you are flinted in room, and then it may be 

 as high as the ceiling. 



The upright poles A E. D F. &c. fliould 

 be niched where they are tied at top, in the 

 manner reprefented at Fig. II. to let the 

 tranfverfe poles ABC, &c. into them, that 

 the fcaffolding may ftand the firmer ; but 

 at bottom the tranfverfe poles E G I, &c, 

 iliould be niched, and not the uprights, 



becaufe 



