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water facilitates the winding off the cocoons, and ) 

 gives a rich gloss and brilliancy to the colour of instricUons 



.1 .-ii lor winding 



the silk. Raw.Silk: 



2. Particular care should be taken to have always 

 a large quantity of dry wood ready for the use of 

 the filature, so as never to be exposed to the ne- 

 cessity of serving the spinners with green wood. 

 The consequence of using the latter would be loss 

 of time and diminution of produce, because the 

 spinner cannot, with a fire of green wood, keep 

 the water in that equal state of temperature which 

 is necessary for winding off the cocoons. Whilst 

 the water is slowly heating the spinner is hindered, 

 and every time he is obliged to throw a fresh hand- 

 ful of cocoons into his pan, the former cocoons, 

 from having been kept therein too long, will open 

 into knots on the reel, or sink to the bottom of 

 the pan, and when water has passed through the 

 cocoons, so that they can no longer swim, they 

 will yield no more silk. It must also be noticed, 

 that a furnace will consume a greater quantity of 

 green wood in one day in making a less quantity 

 of bad silk, than of dry wood in producing a 

 greater quantity of better silk. It is very neces- 

 sary to keep the pan constantly full of water, in 

 order to preserve to the silk a fine colour ; and it 

 is absolutely requisite that the spinner be enabled, 

 at pleasure, to diminish or increase his fire accord- 

 ing to circumstances, which can only be done with 

 dry wood. 



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