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as you find by experience your worms can 

 eat before they decay, excepting the grofler 

 parts and fibres, then at every new feeding 

 your worms will quickly come upon the 

 frefh leaves, and you will not then bury 

 the worms underneath, neither will you 

 make fuch w^afte of food, nor fuch a great 

 quantity of litter, or of moifture and 

 mouldinefs ; and thus no more than fome 

 dry wither'd fibres will be left, which are 

 of ufe and fervice, as the dung of the worms 

 will fall and be buried among them, and 

 not at all taint the frefh leaves which you 

 from time to time give the worms. 



You fliould therefore avoid giving too 

 great a quantity of leaves at any age of the 

 worms J for though when they are well 

 grown, they will not be fo eafily buried, 

 except at their moulting, yet by thus heap- 

 ing, you will both wafte food and increafe 

 litter, mouldinefs and moiilure, and the 

 labour of often being obliged to clean 

 them. You fliould rather defer giving them 

 a frefh meal for fome little time, than give 

 them it before the former was eaten, if it 

 remained frelh or fit for food -, nay, if at 

 any time you find the worms, while they 

 are out of their moult and well, lazy to 



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