SILK-WORMS. 
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The silk-worms proceeding from one ounce of 
eggs in the fifth age, consume about 1098 pounds 
of sorted picked leaves, which makes the quantity 
of leaves required by the five ounces to be 5,490 
pounds weight. 
In this first day of the fifth age, (which as has 
been said, commences on my system, in the after- 
noon,) the worms should fill a space of about 
508 feet square of wicker, which added to the 413 
feet which they already occupy, and which should 
now be cleaned, form together the 921 feet square 
of wicker, upon which they are gradually to spread 
until the termination of this state. 
It is rather troublesome to change the silk- 
worms of the 413 feet, and to subdivide them, 
when placing them in the 921 feet, but this ope- 
ration may be perfectly executed in four hours by 
seven or eight persons. 
In the first day, about ninety pounds of young 
shoots, or of common leaves not sorted, will be 
require^, and as much picked sorted leaves. 
The young shoots should be directly distributed 
upon five or six wicker trays; and should the 
shoots fail, bunches of leaves may be substituted, 
as I before directed. 
As soon as the shoots are loaded with worms, 
they should be taken off, and put upon the little 
portable trays. If the silk-worms of one wicker 
tray are almost all roused, they will be sufficient to 
