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dier, fome came out of the egg perhaps 

 three or four hours before the reft 5 thefe 

 early ones will be a fort of notice to you ta 

 moderate their food, for that the others 

 will foon be in the fame ftate. 



If by any mifmanagemen't worms of dif- 

 ferent ages were mixed together, you may 

 now feparate them from one another ; if, 

 for inftance, a great number of your worms 

 which are in the fame drawer abftnined 

 from their food, and grew motionlefs iri 

 the morning, and the reft continued eat- 

 ing till late at evening, then by giving d 

 few frelh leaves thefe will come upon them, 

 and fo may be taken away from the reft 

 with thofe leaves on which they have fixed. 

 But as the picking the leaves up in order 

 to remove them is tedious, and alfo unlefs 

 great care is ufed may crufli many of the 

 worms, whether by taking hold of the 

 leaves with your fingers or with plyers -, 

 therefore I think it a better way to fepa- 

 rate them now by the means of papers 

 with holes cut in them, in the manner di« 

 reded for taking away the v/orms out of 

 the hatching boxes. 



But if all your worms fell fick together, 



you would now have nothing more to do 



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