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that fupport it, flioald have no heads, and 

 the two fupports in front may be hooks 

 moveable on a nail, which hooks being 

 drawn back, you can lower the front fide 

 of the clofe hurdle and fo take it away ; 

 for, without thus lowering it, it would 

 rub againft the bottom of the bedding, 

 and might hurt fome of the worms which 

 happened to lie low. Inflead of the flicks 

 which fupport the bedding in its fquare 

 rim, packthread may be tied acrofs to an- 

 fwer the fame purpofe ; or nets with 

 meflies five or fix inches fquare may fup- 

 port the bedding, and may be placed on 

 the nails in the ftand by two ftiff reeds 

 run through the meihes of the oppofite 

 fides. And here, by the way, a good me- 

 thod occurs of taking the young worms 

 from off their litter and fibres when there 

 is occafion. Thus Plate I. Fig. VII. fup- 

 pofe you intended to remove all the worms 

 which lie on a hurdle half a yard fquare, 

 to a thin light piece of lath A. fomewhat 

 more than half a yard long, fix feveral 

 fmall threads b. b. b. at about two inches 

 difiance, the threads fiiould be fomewhat 

 more than half a yard long, and fiiould 

 have fingle knots tied near their extremi- 

 ties, 



