SILK-WORMS. 
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that they may take their rest without having to 
make it up, which augmentation of heat affects, 
and even spoils, the embryo. 
1 have observed that, some days, the hatching 
of the worms was most abundant in some boxes, 
and equally so in all the hours of the day as in 
the morning. 
It may not be out of place here to make known 
an easy and beneficial improvement which might 
be made upon our local customs. 
We have proprietors who hatch large numbers 
of silk-worms, afterwards distributing to their 
tenants, in small boxes, in proportion to the quan- 
tity of food for silk-worms which the tenant has at 
his disposal. Instead of which I would propose, 
that all the eggs should be hatched in boxes, capa- 
ble of holding twenty or thirty ounces, construct- 
ed in the proportions before-mentioned, and that 
as fast as the worms come forth, the sheets of pa- 
per should be arranged to receive the ounce of 
silk-worms in regular order, as I have also before 
explained ; by this method, each tenant would re- 
ceive worms hatched nearly the same hour, per- 
fectly equal, and that may be easily reared, as 
experience has shewn. When all the silk- worms 
are hatched, they should be divided into ounces, 
as nearly as possible, and put upon the sheets of 
paper. The earliest should be given to those 
cultivators whose mulberry-trees are most ad- 
