SILK-WORMS. 
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and may be subdivided at pleasure. The parts 
should be as even as possible. 
If, in the first ages of the silk-worms, all the 
care I have described is not taken, numbers will 
be lost (Chap. IV.) ; they will be unequal, and 
contract numberless diseases. 
3. We are to suppose all the silk-worms are to 
be removed from the house in which they were 
hatched. 
The rules prescribed for the removal of part of 
the silk-worms is applicable to the removal of the 
whole of them ; but, as it may be necessary to 
remove them to considerable distances, it requires 
some particular care, which is however very 
simple. 
In a box, calculated for removing easily, (Fig. 
13,) and proportioned to the size of the sheets of 
paper, should be put several of these sheets, co- 
vered with silk-worms in layers above each other, 
at the distance of nearly two inches. This box 
may be carried on the back, like a pedlar’s pack, 
with little fatigue, although it should contain se- 
veral ounces of silk-worms. Should this box, 
which however I think is useful, not be employed, 
common baskets may be used *, which would not 
* The hotte, or high basket, which is here understood, is 
used in France and Italy by the peasantry, and carried upon 
the back by means of straps, through which the arms are 
put ; but I do not see why our common baskets should not 
answer as well . — (Note of the Translator.) 
