OF SILK. 191 



Having thus brought your filkballs into 

 fuch a Itatc, that you need not be anxious 

 about any mifchief happening to them, it 

 is time that you give fome attention to 

 thofe which were feparated for breed, the 

 method of managing which I fliall now 

 proceed to. 



CHAP. VIII. 



^hc jnanagcment of thofe filkpods which were 

 chofen for breed, T'he coming out oj the 

 m.oths, T^he method of coupling them, T^he 

 materials proper for them to lay their eggs 

 o;?, and how to preferve the eggs till the 

 next fp7'ing, 



' \^ HERE is nothing of greater impor- 

 "*• tance in the management of filkworms 

 than that of obtaining a llrong and healthy 

 breed, whether you regard the trouble 

 which it will fave you in feeding, or the 

 advantage of their filk. Every method 

 therefore which improves the breed is care- 

 fully to be attended to, for when you have 

 once got a good kind you can eafily keep it 

 up, but if you let your worms degenerate 



and 



