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THE ART OF REARING 
carry more than four or five ounces at a time. 
The removal in baskets may be executed, in safety, 
with the following precautions : — 
1. Lining the basket thoroughly with paper 
well-closed, that the exterior air may not strike 
the silk- worms, particularly if it should be cold. 
2. Preventing the sheets of paper covered with 
worms from touching each other, by putting 
slender sticks across to support the sheets of pa- 
per, and avoiding their pressing together. This 
should be done in as many layers, from the bot- 
tom of the basket to the top, as there are sheets 
of paper covered with the young worms, leaving 
a distance of four fingers between each. 
3. To cover the basket very completely with 
linen cloths, to keep off cold and sun. 
4. To remove them between the hours of twelve 
and three o’clock, that being the hottest part of 
the day. 
5. To give the worms a small quantity of young 
chopped leaves, if their journey is likely to be 
three or four hours long. 
I trust I have clearly, and with simplicity, 
6 hewn what it is requisite to do for the hatching 
of the silk-worms, and the removal of them into 
the laboratory, or elsewhere ; and the active cul- 
tivator will, I hope, find the execution of my di- 
rections easy and plain, provided he has duly 
disposed all the things he may require. When 
