100 THE ART OF REARING 
silk- worms is the best, and suited to all the differ- 
ent ages. 
The worms thus removed upon clean trays, with 
fresh boughs, get strong and revived. 
An hour or two after the worms have been 
placed upon the hurdles, they should be given a 
meal of three pounds of leaves chopped small. 
When the boughs are stripped of the leaves by 
the worms, there will be bare spaces in the paper, 
and the boughs swarming with worms. To re- 
medy this, the leaves should be gently laid on those 
bare places, and the worms stretching upon them, 
will equally spread and fill the strips. The space 
occupied by the worms should be widened a little 
when they are first fed. It should be remembered 
to sweep up with the small broom the leaves that 
may be scattered. I must here state that the care 
or attention I have here recommended, as well as 
in other parts of this work, and which I myself 
practise for the success of my silk-worms, is nei- 
ther tedious nor difficult, although it may at first 
appear complicated. 
In the remainder of this day, the silk-worms 
should have, in two meals, the remaining six 
pounds of chopped leaves, with an interval of 
six hours between each, or according to the hours 
of the day which remain. 
When the silk-worms have been removed to 
the clean hurdles, those they have left should be 
