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ftraW too clofe, you may now arid then 

 fork it up to make it lie loofe and open. 



When you ufe the forenlentioned bed-^ 

 dings of hay or fibres, &c. you need not 

 clean the clofe hurdles Ader them till 

 you find the litter is lo thick as to 

 hinder the air's pafling freely through their 

 crevifes, fo that by this method you will 

 be eafed of a good deal of labour, and the 

 worms will lie clean, and clear of their 

 litter, neither will they fo much croud one 

 another, the thicknefs of the bed afford- 

 ing them more fpace to lie in. It will be 

 ufeful to have a broad fhallow bafket, 

 made ^o clofe at bottom as not to let the 

 litter pafs through, upon which you may 

 lay the clofe hurdles to beat off the litter, 

 and fo convey it out of the room ; for if 

 it were fpilled on the floor, and trodden 

 under foot, it would become very noifome j 

 when you replace the clofe hurdle, after 

 cleaning, turn the under fide of it next 

 the worms, becaufe it will be the moil: 

 dry and fweet. The more open and buflw 

 fuch materials are of which you make 

 thefe beds, the more they will refemble the 

 branches of trees, among which the worra 

 feeds in its natural (late ; it mufl however, 



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