140 THE CULTURE 



On thefe flielves continue to feed your 

 worms thrice a day j do not be at the trou- 

 ble of laying the leaves over them one by 

 one, but, taking them by handfuls, fcat- 

 ter them at firft thinly over your worms, 

 not letting them fall in heaps 3 it is bed to 

 fcatter them firft where the worms lie thin- 

 neft, which will draw them from lying in 

 crowds, and afterwards you may throw 

 them over thofe places which remained un- 

 fupplied. 



As the worms are now to continue on 

 thefe flielves, you muft, if the weather 

 fhould change to cold, keep the doors and 

 \vindows very clofe, and you may further 

 guard againft the cold, by throwing a co- 

 vering of thin light paper over them, fo 

 long as the bad weather continues ; and 

 thefe remedies will have the better effe6l, 

 if, while- the weather was warm and fine, 

 you had not kept them too tenderly, but 

 had given them the frefh air now and then, 

 efpecially in the heat of the dayj an equal 

 temperature of heat being what agrees beft 

 with them, and to this your conduct and 

 contrivance mufl come, as nigh as you can 

 bring it. 



Now 



