BOMBYX MORI. 
Preparing the Cocoonery. 
§SiifiOR a small number of worms — say one thousand — but 
little preparation is required. Part of a small room, 
with tables or a few shelves, is all that will be needed. 
For more extensive feeding', a cocoonery should be 
fitted up. Any well ventilated room or outbuilding in which 
a stove can be placed will answer. If not new it must be 
cleaned and whitewashed. If a room is built for this 
purpose, let it rest upon posts, several inches from the 
ground, and put tar around each, to prevent the intrusion of 
insects. Mice should also be guarded against. It should 
have windows on opposite sides, to secure good ventilation, 
and both doors and windows protected by netting. A room 
eight by twelve feet will accommodate the product of one 
ounce of eggs — about thirty six thousand — by placing three 
rows of shelves around three sides of .the room. For from 
one hundred thousand to one hundred and twenty thousand 
worms, a room twenty by sixteen feet in area, and ten or 
eleven feet high, will be needed. Shelves should extend 
around the room, in rows two feet apart, leaving a space for 
entrance only. To economize room the center may also 
be fitted up with shelves. The wall shelves may be two 
feet and those in the center four feet dee}). This will leave 
a convenient space around the room to attend to the worms. 
To protect from ants, set the posts on which the shelves rest, 
in basins of water. Foul odors and the fumes of tobacco 
must be avoided. All wood used about a cocoonery should 
be well seasoned, as green wood is injurious to the 
worms. 
Conveniences for Feeding. 
(IfjfflT w ill ne found best to have a series of feeding frames 
j$i|l provided, for which are needed, laths, small tacks, and 
®§|f twine. Make the trays two feet wide and four feet 
%ja$?{ long. Cut the laths into the required lengths, and nail 
together edgeways. Set the tacks around the edge one- 
third of an inch apart, then wind the twine around each 
