SILK-WORMS. 
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disposition of the worms. This day the head of 
the silk-worm is much whiter ; the insects have 
perceptibly grown larger; scarcely can any hairi- 
ness be perceived on them with the naked eye. 
The skin is of a sort of hazel colour. When seen 
through a magnifying glass, their surface looks 
shining, and their head is of a silvery bright ap- 
pearance, like mother-of-pearl, and rather trans- 
parent. 
Fourth Day . — This day, six pounds twelve 
ounces of chopped leaves should be given, for the 
quantity should be diminished as the appetite de- 
creases ; the first meal should be of about two 
pounds four ounces, and the other meals should 
decrease in proportion as the quantity of leaves 
given before appears not to have been thoroughly 
eaten. 
The cultivator must regulate the intermediate 
meals, upon the apparent appetite of the silk- 
worms, taking the food for them from the quan- 
tity of leaves allotted for the whole consumption 
of the day. The space on the sheet of paper 
must visibly get covered with the worms. It is 
important, in this first age, to give the worms 
plenty of room, by gently separating ^nd spread- 
ing them, to avoid as much as possible their sleep- 
ing in heaps together. 
The constant care of enlarging the squares by 
degrees when the worms are fed, will gradually 
