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put away. The best eggs are laid en masse, or in 

 semicircles. Eggs that are laid scattering about 

 are, as a rule, not worth saving. They never 

 should be laid in heaps. 



When taken from the boxes, the papers should 

 be hung on files from the wall, so they will not 

 press one on the other. 



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Best Eggs. 



Silkworm eggs are about the size of mustard 

 seed, not orange-shape, but depressed on both 

 upper and under side. When first laid they are 

 yellow, and, viewed with a magnifier, they seem 

 full of liquid of the same hue. They may be 

 considered as annuals, bivoltines, and poly- 

 voltines. Annuals hatch once a year; bivoltines, 

 twice; and polyvoltines, three, four, or more 

 times, according to their good or careless feeding 

 or care. 



