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THE ART OP REARING 
and that of the stove, constitute the two ex- 
tremes. By putting the early worms in the cool- 
est part of the room, and the late-hatched worms 
in the hottest, and by feeding the latter rather 
higher, it is practicable to bring them nearly to 
an equality. 
2. We are to suppose that a portion of the 
silk-worms are to be reared in the house in which 
they have been hatched, and the rest to be reared 
elsewhere. 
I have said all that is necessary respecting the 
silk-worms which are to be reared at home. I 
shall only mention, as to those that are to be re- 
moved from the laboratory, that, to facilitate 
their conveyance, each sheet of paper should con- 
tain the whole ounce of silk-worms, and not the 
quarter alone. On each sheet should be disposed, 
in a space of eighteen inches square, which when 
filled will hold about the whole ounce. 
When the cultivator shall have taken home 
with him his portion of silk-worms upon these 
sheets of paper, containing one ounce, he must 
put the square of silk-worms into four small 
squares of ten inches each, thus forming four 
quarters of one sheet, or rather four small sheets. 
This division is easily effected, by passing the hands 
under the litter of leaves to which the worms 
cling, and parting the leaves gently ; when it is 
required to divide the mass, it separates easily, 
