THE MODERN HISTORV OP SILK. SOf) 



freely exposed to the sun. As the weather varied 

 a little in different places, the eggs were not hatched 

 exactly at the same time ; but where much rain 

 and considerable changes in the atmosphere occurred, 

 the worms began to appear on the 10th or 12th 

 day, which was the case with almost all that were 

 put out in April. Where the weather was fine and 

 dry, they crept out upon the fifth day. As soon 

 as this had taken place, the covers of the boxes 

 were removed, the nearest branches of the trees 

 were bent down into the boxes, and an opportunity 

 was thus given to the little animals of seeking their 

 own nourishment, and of distributing themselves 

 gradually over the trees. 



" At Jerkovaez, Thomashevaez, Alibunar, and 

 Neudorf, in the north-eastern part of this flat district, 

 the little race was in a short time completely 

 destroyed by storms and sudden showers. In other 

 places they attained to different sizes, according as 

 the atmosphere was more or less disturbed. They 

 had already passed through their first sleep at 

 Glogon, Porlasvaros, and Isbistie, and even through 

 tiieir second at Grebensicz, when hail stornis, 

 showers, and gusts of wind, cast them down from 

 the leaves, and they perished. 



" At Homoliez, Oppova, Starcsova, Kubin, and 

 Panscova, in the south, where no hail fell, the Silk- 

 worms survived till the period of spinning, without 

 being injured by the casual rains of the cold nights 



