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properly and fully fupplicd as long as they 

 continue to eat ; for which reafon, you 

 muit give them their leaves often, though 

 but few at a time, bccaufe if they lie under 

 the arbours it is not eaiy to clear away 

 their litter, which yet however niuft be 

 done, if it gt ows throng and fmells much. 

 If you find that as many worms have 

 got among the branches as can conve- 

 niently fpin there, then take away thofe 

 which have not yet mounted, and place 

 them upon another fland, among worms 

 which will fpin nearly at the fame time j 

 for if the worms are too much crouded in 

 the arbours, they will be more apt to fpin 

 double balls, which having two worms in 

 one pod, cannot be reeled ofF^ and there- 

 fore, as you look over the arbours, where- 

 ever you fee two worms begin one common 

 pod, you fhould take one of them away, 

 and place it in fome otli^er part of the 

 twigs. 



A little before the worms on any 

 of the ftands were ready to fpin, you fhould 

 have clean'd away their litter from all the 

 hurdles, that the fVands may be fweet and 

 airy at the time of fpinning, and that you 

 may not at that time diflurb or fliake the 

 M 3 arbours 



