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paper to almost any thing else. I have taken worms 

 that have travelled about half a day on brush and 

 other apparatus made for them to wind on, and put 

 them in a piece of paper rolled in the shape of a cone, 

 and they would commence winding immediately. At 

 first, i had considerable difficulty in suiting the worms 

 with places to wind on ; so I went to work and made 

 an apparatus somewhat similar to Mr. Hammond's, and 

 found it answered the very purpose, with this excep- 

 tion : many of the vacancies were altogether too large ; 

 the worms wound too much floss, and too many du- 

 pions, or double cocoons. I have of late noticed a 

 *' new cocoon frame," described on the 15th page of 

 the 7th volume of Genesee Farmer, which I consider 

 an excellent plan. 



Perhaps it may not be out of place to mention, in 

 conclusion, that I have two trees of the Morus Multi- 

 caulis inoculated into the white, that have thus far 

 withstood the severity of the winter, and, at the present 

 time, (March 9,) but three or four inches of the tops 

 have been injured by the frost. My thanks to W. 

 W. B. for so much in this particular,, and much more in 

 many others. 



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We are often inquired of as to the best time of trim- 

 ming apple-trees. Old dry limbs may be cut away when- 

 ever you have leisure ; but green limbs would better be 

 taken off later than this in the season. When trimmed 

 as late as May, the wounds are sooner healed than 

 when trimmed in winter. Large green limbs should 

 never be cut from the tree : they are better there than 

 on the fire. If trees are annually trimmed of the small 

 interfering limbs, there will be no large ones in the 

 way. 



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