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THE ART OF REARING 
rated paper which covered the eggs of the silk- 
worms in the small boxes, are loaded with the 
young worms, these boxes are all put upon trays 
made to carry them, and they are removed to the 
laboratory. 
When all the sheets of coarse paper, accurately 
numbered, have been laid on the wicker hurdles, 
the small box of the corresponding number is put 
on the edge of the wicker hurdle, and with a 
small hook, the twigs, covered with the worms, 
are gently lifted off the perforated paper on the 
box, and put upon the paper laid on the wicker 
hurdles. The hook should be used, (Fig. 12.) as 
the touch of the hands might injure the in- 
sects. In laying the twigs on the paper, care 
must be had to allow space enough for mulberry- 
leaves to be put over the twigs, and between 
them, that the insects may have room to stretch 
and properly distribute themselves. It should be 
noted here, that the silk-worms produced from one 
ounce of eggs thus disposed, should occupy a 
space of about twenty square inches. Each sheet 
of coarse paper, on the hurdle, will cover a space 
of nearly twenty-two square inches ; being twenty- 
three inches long, and twenty-one inches wide. 
Having a care to lay the worms in small squares 
of ten inches, four sheets of paper will be the 
number required to hold the produce of one ounce 
of eggs, which will exactly allow the worms the 
