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Or you may diflilbute them on other 

 fhelves, taking what portion you think 

 proper of the cake of fibres whereon they 

 lie, by putting your hands under it and 

 gently feparating it from the refl, and then 

 laying it where you intended, repeating 

 the fame method if you had not taken 

 enough at firft. 



And if at any time you find this cake of 

 litter moid, mouldy, or foetid, your worms 

 fliould all be taken from it when they come 

 upon the frefli leaves, and all the cake of 

 litter fliould be thrown away, or at lead 

 you fliould feparate the upper layer of 

 fibres whereon the worms lie from the un- 

 der part ; which you may pretty eafdy do, 

 as the cake is generally compofed of many 

 layers of fibres, by raifing the layer at firfi: 

 on the cdgQ with your hand, and flill as 

 you raife it, iliding a thin board under itj 

 the board fliould have a fliort handle like a 

 wool-card, and when you have as much of 

 the cake as it will take of, feparate it from 

 the reft, and gently flide it on the fiielf you 

 defigned it for, and {o proceed to take 

 more. A little fhovel or board of the above 

 kind, with a fmall ledge on all fides, ex- 

 cept the forepart^ may be found at other 



times 



