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cocoons, and in the worst weather of twelve to (C.) 

 fourteen cocoons. ^ 



Instructions 



April and May may be reckoned the best wea- for winding 



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ther, because the cocoons then received at the 

 factory are the produce of the preceding dry 

 months. From September to the end of March, 

 the silk should be spun of five or six cocoons and 

 of eighteen to twenty cocoons. 



7. Samples should be spun every week by an 

 able spinner, in the presence of the Resident, the 

 Deputy, and of all the overseers of the factory. 



N. B. Five new cocoons will produce the exact 

 size of the thread fit for fine organzine ; but the 

 spinner must, on no account, omit to add one or 

 two cocoons at a time, as soon as the threads break 

 or become half-wound, and never to forget that 

 two half- wound cocoons are not more in substance 

 than one fresh cocoon ; therefore he may safely 

 have at a time three new cocoons and five or six 

 old ones, which will not make the thread coarser 

 than five new cocoons. The same proportion is to 

 be observed in spinning every other quality of silk 

 before-mentioned . 



7 to 8 cocoons is to be of 7 new ones at least. 



9 to 10 . . do. . . 9 . . do. 

 13 to 14 . . do. . . 12 . . do. 

 18 to 20 . . do. . • 18 do. 



or an equivalent, by adding a greater number of 

 old cocoons when wanted, or of new ones, agree- 

 ably to circumstances. 



When 



