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CHAP. IX. 



Hew to manage the Silkworms diiri?ig their 

 two next ^ges, that is, from their re- 

 covery out of their Jeco?id moult to their 

 recovery out. of their fourth. 



HEN the filkworms are recovered 

 from their fecond licknefs, they 

 will be able to bear the air on open 

 flielves if the weather is fine, and you had 

 acciiftomed them to the frefh air at times 

 before, when you found the day warm, to 

 inure them to it. You may therefore now 

 place them upon fome of your fhelves made 

 of hurdles, in the large flands, and as there 

 has been no occafion as yet to take away 

 their litter, if it remain'd dry and they 

 were properly managed, fo neither is there 

 any now ; it is no more than a loofe cake 

 of dry fibres conne6led paitly by its own 

 materials, and partly by a fine cobweb 

 which the worm is almoll confiantly fpin- 

 ning from its birth -, the little dung, which 

 lies among the fibres of this cake, is alfo 

 quite dry, and in this cafe I never found a 



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