SILK-WORMS. 
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from the mouth of the animal : instead of dis- 
gusting those that attend them, they are pleasing 
to look at. 
The fifteen pounds of young shoots afford the 
silk-worm its first meal, as in the preceding 
age. 
When the silk-worms have eaten the leaves 
upon the shoots, they should have a second meal 
of about seven pounds and a half of the leaves, 
carefully filling -with leaves the space between the 
shoots,’ to equalize the distribution of the worms 
upon the strips. 
I must unceasingly repeat it, to ensure the silk- 
worms continuing of an equal size, the cultivator 
must always watch those persons who distribute 
the food, that it may be perfectly even, and all 
the worms enabled to partake of it. A waste of 
the leaves is not only a real loss, but also is apt, 
by thickening the litter in heaps, to ferment much 
more speedily than the more fibrous litter could 
have done, and thereby cause disease. 
The worms should have their last meal this day 
of seven pounds and a half of leaves, which com- 
pletes the feeding of the day. 
Should the removal of the litter be late in the 
day, so that the silk-worms could not be given 
the three meals, that portion of the leaves may be 
added to those of the following day. 
Two active, handy persons should take but one 
