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till its fibres become entangled in one ano- 

 ther j then fpreading it out and flattening ity 

 it will become a fort of net- work i lay this 

 over your young worms, and ftrew the 

 frefh leaves over it, and when they are 

 come through it, and have fixed upon the 

 leaves, then Aide a very thin Ihovel of 

 board, or pafte-board, having a handle 

 like a wool-card, under the hay, and, tak- 

 ing it off the cake of old fibres, Aide it 

 with the worms from off the Ihovel upon 

 a clean part of the hurdle : you may very 

 readily infinuate the (hovel under the hay 

 ■«ivithout incommoding the worms, if, while 

 you raife the hay with one hand, 3^ou by de- 

 grees thruft the fhovel gently under it with 

 the other. You may let the worms be a 

 little hungry, by falling a little longer than 

 prdinary, before you lay the hay over 

 them, that they may the more quickly 

 come up through to the frefli leaves which 

 you give them. And therefore, that you 

 may lofe as little time as poffible, when 

 you have fpread the hay and leaves over one 

 parcel of worms, you may proceed and do 

 the fame to another, and (o on to all the 

 different parcels which you have, by which 

 means the firil which you fed vi'ili be get- 

 ting 



