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commence, which will last for two complete days; 

 seven days afterwards the third change will occur, 

 which will occupy three days ; and in seven days 

 more they will change their skin for the fourth and 

 last time, a process which will continue for four days. 

 In eight days from this time the whole of the Silk 

 Worms will begin to spin ; in five days more their 

 labours will be completed ; so that, on the sixth day, 

 they may be taken from the places where they have 

 spun, and exposed a day before the winding com- 

 mences." 



Blaschkowitsch afterwards published some books 

 of much authority on the subject. In 1807, an 

 establishment was instituted at Foth Almus, near 

 Pesth, which was put under his guidance; and, in ; 

 1812, Stephen Von Begh, Obergespaun of the 

 Baranga comitatus, brought him to Fiinfkirchen to 

 give instructions upon the subject publicly, which he ; 

 did with great effect, and seemed at the time to j 

 infuse much ardour into those he taught. 



The greatest attention was paid to this subject in i 

 the Banat and the military frontier provinces, where 

 the peculiarity of the constitution, as a military 

 government, gives a singular facility to authoritative 

 interference, and the following abstract of the regula- 

 tions, issued in 1805, presents an illustration by no 

 means devoid of interest, of the mode in which that 

 interference is directed. 



In order to give greater spirit to the culture of 

 silk in the district of the frontier Banat regiment, 

 by the practical education of scholars, the general 



