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fome of our ladies who kept filkworms give 

 themfelves an endlefs trouble in cleaning 

 and picking them from the old leaves and 

 jfibres every day, a thing which cannot be 

 done vv^ithout injuring the worms, and for 

 which there had been no neccflity, had not 

 their food been crouded fafter than they 

 could eat it, and the leaves given with^ 

 out dicing them, which would have hin- 

 dered them to curl and invelope the 

 worms. 



I have read, that in Spaiit they keep the 

 very young worms in flat ftraw bafKets 

 fmeared on the infide with cow's dung, 

 and then dried, and that they reckon the 

 fmell of the dried cow-dung wholefome 

 for the worms. 



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