OF SILK. jt75 



CHAP. XL 



Borne additional obfervations on cleaning the 

 hurdles from tki litter made by the Silk-f 

 worms, 



THOUGH fome directions for keeping 

 the filkvvorms clean, have, occafion- 

 ally, been interfperfed through thisTreatife, 

 yet it may not be amifs to give them a 

 particular place here ; both becaufe the. 

 cleaning of the hurdles is abfolutely ne- 

 ceflary to the health of the worms, and 

 alfo becaufe, when they are grown large, 

 it makes a principal part of the labour 

 which is beftowed on them^ for, as the 

 leaves are gathered and brought home by 

 particular perfons allotted to that bufmefs, 

 fo almofl the whole of their v/ork who at- 

 tend on the worms confifls in feeding, 

 cleaning, removing, and occafionally fe- 

 parating thofe which do not ficken at the 

 fame time. 



Till the worms have paflfed their third 

 moult, or ficknefs, the trouble of clean- 

 ing them is very fmati j for till they have 

 pafs'd their fir ft moult, which is fix or eight 

 T 2 days 



