SILK-WORMS. 
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6th. When their skins become wrinkled about 
the neck, and their bodies have more softness 
to the touch than heretofore, and feel like soft 
dough. 
7th. When, in taking a silk-worm in the hand 
and looking through it, the whole body has 
assumed the transparency of a ripe yellow plum. 
When these signs appear in any of the insects, 
every thing should be prepared for their rising, 
that those worms that are ready to rise may not 
lose their strength and silk, in seeking for the 
support they require. 
2. First Preparation for forming the Hedge , or 
Espalier. 
To avoid the loss that might accrue from delay, 
there should be fagots or bundles, ready made, 
of dry turnip-plants, or common broom, or clean 
bean-stalks, or, in short, of any bush, or brush- 
wood well cleaned, that may answer. 
These should be arranged into bunches or fa- 
gots, that the worms may easily climb up them, 
and fix themselves conveniently to pour out their 
first downy silk, and then work their cocoon. 
These bushes should be neither too thick set, nor 
too bare, to avoid inconveniences, which I shall 
mention hereafter. As soon as it is observed that 
the worms want to rise, the fagot^,, should be 
put up against the inside wall, above the wicker 
