202 THE CULTURE 



fliould put them into a glazed earthen 

 veiTel, and cover the veflel with a plate or 

 fawcer, to prevent any injury from rats, 

 mice, &c. after which place it in a cool, 

 but not a moift part of the houfe, and 

 there let it remain fo long as the weather 

 continues moderately warm, for fear of 

 bringing the eggs into a tendency to be 

 hatclied. When the weather begins to 

 grow cold, pour the eggs into clean little 

 fir-deal boxes, fuch as thofe made to keep 

 wafers, and fhutting their lids clofe, place 

 them in a cheft of drawers among woollen 

 or filk cloaths, but not among linnen, it 

 being apt to draw moifture to it ; or you 

 may put the boxes among the flofs-filk 

 which came from the outfide of the filk- 

 balls, and thus they are to be kept till the 

 enfuing fpring. 



The place where the cheft of drawers 

 flands fliould be fuch as is neither expofed 

 to moifture, heat, or cold 5 for moifture 

 rots many of the eggs, and on this account 

 too, thofe who let them be laid on paper, 

 and keep them fo all the winter, will have 

 many decayed ones ; for paper draws 

 moifture to it. Heat is to be avoided, be- 

 caufe it might biing the eggs to hatch be- 

 fore 



