44 THE SILK WORM. 



If a building has not been erected expressly for tho 

 purpose, which, however, may be done at a small ex- 

 pense, barns, stables and other out houses, or unoccu- 

 pied rooms in a dwelling house, may be easily fitted 

 up for temporary use. They must be furnished with 

 shelves, or tables, on which the Worms are to be pla- 

 ced and fed. 



Cocooneries have been furnished in various ways; 

 but the following is perhaps attended with as little ex- 

 pense, as any that have been adopted. It is recom- 

 mended by Mr. Cobb of Dedham, who thus describes 

 it: "I have used three tiers of rough pine boards, 

 fixed upon upright posts, about four feet in width, one 

 above the other, with a space between of two and a 

 half feet, affording room sufficient to pass all around 

 the frame, so that I could reach any part of it. In 

 making the shelves it is well to have the lowest one 

 six inches broader than the one above it, and to make 

 the same difference in the shelves above, so as to break 

 the fall of such Worms as happen to tumble down." 

 Mr C. also describes another method of constructing 

 shelves, which he saw in the nursery of Mr. Smith of 

 Baltimore, which: he thinks a very good one. He 

 says, " it is about two and a half feet wide, by five or 

 six long, made of thin boards, with a piece two inches 

 wide nailed flat on the upper edge along the sides and 

 ends, with legs about a foot long in the corners. The 

 legs do not pass through the table, but leave a part of 

 the hole on the upper side for the feet of another table 

 to set in. Thus contrived, five or six of these tables 

 are set one above another, and are taken down, cleans- 

 ed and again set up with facility. One of these 

 shelves will accommodate 500 Worms." He also 

 recommends putting old newspapers on the shelves, 



