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THE ART OF REARING 
The hedge rows of grafted mulberries, however, 
yield a greater abundance of leaves, than is pro- 
duced by the wild mulberry hedge-row. 
The quantity of cocoons must depend on the 
quantity of leaves. We shall soon show that we 
may calculate upon obtaining 151bs. of cocoons 
from 2021bs. of grafted mulberry leaves. (Chap. 
XV.) The cultivator must therefore occasionally 
strive to augment the plantations of the mulberry- 
trees, either in standards or in hedge-rows, or in 
short, in every way that does not interfere with 
the cultivation of his land. 
About twenty years ago, in various districts 
Was introduced a method of planting large tracts 
of land with mulberry trees, at small distances 
from each other, so as to form wood or coppice, 
cutting them down every two years, to form full 
thick brush-wood. To improve these, the soil 
must be well manured, and moved frequently. I 
have not personally tried this mode of cultivation, 
therefore cannot state the advantages it may pos- 
sess beyond that of the common culture. 
Many say this system is delusive, that it can 
only be recommended where land is scarce, that it 
only tends, instead of producing fine and stately 
trees, to load the earth with deformed and un- 
seemly bushes, yielding few leaves, fyc. 
If in all I have stated, there should be any 
error, as often happens on other points of agricul- 
