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entirely free from it ; on the branches they will have a 

 better chance to be equally fed, and if this be not 

 attended to, the ill fed ones will lag behind. But 

 the greatest advantage of all is, that they need not to 

 be removed from the frame, from the time they are put 

 on it, till they mount to wind the cocoon ; this will be 

 a vast saving of labor, and prevent the handling of the 

 worms, which is always to be avoided. As the branches 

 are laid on, they should be laid first crosswise ; and 

 then lengthwise with the frame ; making thus a sort 

 of net-work which can be easily separated in layers when 

 you clean them off; the worms will be more healthy, 

 particularly in moulting time, as in the usual way of 

 feeding with leaves ; they retire under the litter, and 

 remain there till they change, w r here they must breathe 

 a bad air, and in many cases be smothered by the accu- 

 mulation of matter. 



" I may as well mention here the system of cutting the 

 branches. Cut your trees within three or four feet of 

 the ground, making clean work as you go, cutting the 

 branches within two or three inches of the body. The 

 trees thus trimmed will produce a head to be taken off 

 at the feeding time ; they will be thus kept within reach, 

 and always handsomer and better than when stripped 

 of their leaves. The branches when cut should be laid 

 in the cellar, when if wet, they will soon dry ; after 

 being fed from, they may be planted in furrows, and will 

 many of them grow." 



Though I have never seen the above article before 

 to-day, December 22d, 1866, it seems to me curious 



