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fb6l this, in climates where the weather 

 will not injure the worms, no more care 

 need be taken, than to fecure them from 

 bii*ds; and you might perhaps do it, in 

 the following manner. 



Take as many as you tliink proper of 

 your fiiil hatched worms, and throw fome 

 frefli leaves on them, in order to divide 

 them fo, that there may not be above a 

 fcore on each leaf; when you have thus 

 divided them, faften each leaf with the 

 worms on it by pinning them here and 

 there among the fmall branches of the 

 mulberry-tree, and fecure them from birds 

 by covering the tree with a net. If the 

 tree was trained againft a wall it might be 

 the more convenient, becaufe its leaves 

 would be the more forward, and it would 

 not be liable to be fo much fhaken by 

 winds ; you could alfo the eafier fecure it 

 by a net, which you might fix in fuch a 

 manner as to be at fom.e little diftance 

 from the leaves, fo that no bird could 

 come at any of the worms ; this might be 

 done by fome covering of boards or fuch 

 like, which, proje6ling from the top of the . 

 wall, might have the net hung to it, and 

 would be an additional advantage againfi: 



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