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four hours during the heat of every fair 

 day J and even though the weather is foul, 

 yet, if you perceive the place where they 

 are kept to fmell ftrong upon your coming 

 into it, you muil, notwithftanding this, 

 open the windows for a fliort time to refrefh 

 the air; and you fliould afterwards examine 

 whether their litter is not gathered too 

 thick, and clear it away. Nor fiiould you 

 now keep the worms too throng, but as 

 airy, clean, and neat as you can conveni- 

 ently. 



Notwlthftandhig the many rules and in- 

 ftruclions which have been given, chieliy 

 that you might not be at a lofs in any cir- 

 cumflance, yet before their fourth moult, 

 you vv^iil not find much trouble in mana- 

 ging the worms -, but in this laft age your 

 labour of feeding, and attending will be 

 confiderably increafed -, yet as it lafls but 

 about ten days, and as the advantage which 

 you are to reap from the filkworms de- 

 pends much on your diligence at this period ^ 

 you muit fubje6l yourfelf without referve 

 to it, or lofe the profit which you ex-. 

 pe61:ed. 



The worms being fed plentifully as al- 

 ready rnqntioned, will, within ten days af- 

 ter 



