MODES OF MAKING SILK. 61 



In Italy, Count Dandolo had recommended and adopt- 

 ed the plan of using stoves, for warming and regulating 

 the temperature of the apartments in which the eggs 

 were hatched. The heat of these rooms being regu- 

 lated by the thermometer, is raised during the first day 

 to 64 deg., raising it gradually a degree or two a day, 

 till it shall have reached 82 deg. on the tenth day, and 

 this point is not to be exceeded. Count Dandolo has 

 suggested that one room might answer for all the silk- 

 worms of a whole district. 



Fortunately, the necessity of rules like these are un- 

 known in the climate of that portion of America which 

 we inhabit. 



In some of the late establishments of France, they 

 have altogether dispensed with the use of fire places and 

 stoves, and the apartments being now warmed when 

 needful by currents of heated air, warmed by a furnace 

 placed beneath, or without the main apartment. 



Broussa, a city at the foot of Mount Olympus, like 

 many other cities of Turkey, says Commodore Porter, 

 is surrounded with plantations of the mulberry; and 

 asses laden with the limbs and leaves are continually 

 going into the city. 



Mr. Rhind informs us, that in Turkey, the produc- 

 tion of silk is confined to the cities or large towns, in 

 the vicinity of which, the mulberry trees are chiefly cul- 

 tivated by the farmers and landed proprietors, who do 

 not raise the silk-worm themselves. At the suitable 

 season, the leaves are daily collected by them, and sold 

 in the market of the city, as fruit and vegetables are 

 sold. When the season co'mmences, almost every fam- 

 ily clear out all the rooms in the house except the one 

 in which they live : the worms being hatched, they pur- 

 chase sufficient leaves, and strew them over the floor of 

 each room, leaving only a small space round the four walls, 

 for the convenience of feeding; they then place the 

 worms on the leaves, who readily attack them ; new 

 quantities of leaves being daily added to supply the 



