DISEASES OF SILKWORMS. 14<) 



>are with them. Those without lime never pro- 

 duced more than three small and imperfect cocoons, 

 while in those which were sprinkled with lime, I 

 lad very often twelve, and never fewer than nine 

 "ull-sized cocoons." He found that even a large 

 >roportion of lime had no bad effect on the worms. 

 The method which Count Dandolo practised, was 

 he fumigation of the apartments with chlorine gas, 

 ilthough this is attended with danger. Chlorade 

 >f lime, however, is less hazardous, and produces 

 equally beneficial effects in clearing apartments of 

 noxious vapours. 



