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basket, and Bteamed for half an Honr over boiling water, exactly 

 in the Bame manner as potatoes are steamed. Wlien sufficiently 

 steamed, theyshould be spread on a doth on the sameframes npon 

 which the worms have been fed : these being network, the aii 

 passes through, and dries the cocoons ; they should be turned 

 and moved occasionally, to prevent fermentation, and should 

 not he heaped upon one another above two inches deep. 



The silkworm will eat lettuce-leaves, if given before it has 

 tasted those of the mulberry; but silkworms which are fed 07 

 other than mulbeiry-leaves will degenerate — ^will not mak« 

 good cocoons, or strong fine silk, and are subject to diseases 

 from which those are exempt which are properly fed. Thej 

 will eat any sort of mulban-y-leaf, white or red. 



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