OF SILK. 'iSi 



order to preferve them till yoa have time, 

 provided you kill them in a proper man- 

 ner ; befides where you have a great quan- 

 tity of balls it cannot be expected that 

 you fliould be able to reel off many before 

 the time of the moths piercing ; therefore 

 you mull be careful in preventing this, 

 which, if it happened, would be an irre- 

 parable lofs; and thus by having all the 

 balls in a condition to wind them off at 

 your leifure, you will be able to go the 

 more regularly about it, and to reel off 

 their filk to greater advantage and perfec- 

 tion. 



Moff perfons in the countries where filk- 

 worms are bred, do not reel off their 

 balls, but fell them to thofe who make this 

 their bufmefs ; and there is no doubt but 

 that all manufadures are the more ex- 

 peditioufly carried on, the more branches 

 they are divided into : yet where perfons 

 who breed filkworms have leifure and con- 

 veniency, they will confiderably increafe 

 the profit of their filk by reeling it them- 

 felves. Three thoufand three hundred filk- 

 pods, with the chryfals in them weigh a- 

 bout twelve pounds, and may be worth 

 about eight fhillings, according as the filk 

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