198 THE MODERN HISTORY OF SILK. 



half loth ; at Panscova, with several loths, both on 

 single trees, and in the mulberry plantations. 



" The weather proving fine, the eggs, at the end of 

 April and the beginning of May, were fastened in 

 boxes secured with a cover upon the trees, and freely 

 exposed to the sun. As the weather varied a little in 

 different places, the eggs were not hatched exactly at 

 the same time ; but where much rain and considerable 

 changes in the atmosphere occurred, the worms began 

 to appear on the 10th or 12th day, which was the 

 case with almost all that were put out in April. 

 Where the weather was fine and dry, they crept out 

 upon the fifth day. As soon as this had taken place, 

 the covers of the boxes were removed, the nearest 

 branches of the trees were bent down into the boxes, 

 and an opportunity was thus given to the little 

 animals of seeking their own nourishment, and of 

 distributing themselves gradually over the trees. 



" At Jerkovaez, Thomashevaez, Alibunar, and 

 Neudorf, in the northeastern part of this flat district, 

 the little race was in a short time completely destroyed 

 by storms and sudden showers. In other places they 

 attained to different sizes, according as the atmosphere 

 was more or less disturbed. They had already passed 

 through their first sleep at Glogon, Porlasvaros, and 

 Isbistie, and even through their second at Grebenacz, 

 when hail storms, showers, and gusts of wind, cast 

 them down from the leaves, and they perished. 



" At Homoliez, Oppova, Starcsova, Rubin, and 

 Panscova, in the south, where no hail fell, the Silk 

 Worms survived till the period of spinning, without 



