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neceilary preparations for them fometime 

 before-hand j for you would find yourfelf 

 greatly embarafled to do it when numbers 

 of the worms were to be accommodated 

 if you had not made fome provifion be- 

 fore. 



It may be proper, before I end this chap- 

 ter, to inform you that the wormiS which 

 are hatched from fix ounces of eggs, re- 

 quire the attendance of two perfons till 

 they have paiTed their fourth moult, after 

 which they require five or fix. They will 

 produce from fifty to fixty pounds of filk, 

 and in a favourable feafon a good deal 

 more. 



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