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spin the silk, and are obliged to separate the 
double cocoons from the single, the silk being 
of an inferior quality. 
The little fagots should be fixed into the 
wicker-work of the hurdles, and not into the 
paper, which is very easy, and requires only to 
lift the paper at the edge of the wicker, to put in 
the ends of the fagots through the wicker, so as 
to let the fagot touch the edges. This arrange- 
ment of the bundles or fagots, is also convenient 
for the cleaning of the hurdles, which must soon 
occur. > 
Having thus placed upon each hurdle, and in 
their angles, a sufficient number of spreading 
fagots, the first worms that are ready easily find 
their way up. If in the course of this day (which 
requires the very utmost care,) in watching the 
hurdles, some worms should be perceived ready 
to rise, they must be taken up and put near the 
ends of the fagots: this operation is useful. 
There should be also some dry twigs of oak, or 
other wood, put upon the wickers, and when the 
worms rise on them, they may be lifted and put 
close to the fagots, which will save the ti-ouble 
of constantly looking for the worms that are 
ready to rise. 
I must observe, however, on this subject, that 
during the first three or four hours in which the 
silk-worms give signs of rising, it is not necsssary 
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