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Inches broad. This will hinder any of the 

 moths, which are to be coupled on the 

 i\uffj froni falling to the ground. 



Now take tlie moths gently from off the 

 filkballs to which they cling by their claws, 

 and place them by pairs, a male and female 

 together, on the above-mentioned piece of 

 fluff, to which they will fallen by their 

 daws, and, having purged themfelves of a 

 liauor, in colour like brick-duft, which 

 fpurts from their bellies in a fmall ftream, 

 the male and female will couple together* 



You may, in thus pairing them^ put 

 the ftrongeft and largeft nigh one another 

 on the fluff, and you may quite reje6l 

 thofe that are very fmall, weak, or fome-^ 

 way injured, by which means you will 

 further meliorate the breed. 



You fhould have another piece of ftufFj 

 hung in the fame manner with that already 

 defcribed, in a different part of the room, 

 and, as often as you find the moths cou- 

 pled, take them off the firft fluff, and 

 place them, thus coupled together, on this 

 fecond onej by which rrteans you will 

 avoid any confiifion, which might arife 

 from your not knowing which had cou- 

 pled and which had not. 



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