APPENDIX 
359 
1813 . Expenses incurred. 
Five ounces of silk-worms’ eggs 
Fuel-wood for hatching them (Chap. V.) 
82 quintals or 80 cwts. of mulberry lpaves, at 
4 livres 13 sous, average price at 6d. the 
quintal - 
18 quintals 75 lbs. of shavings, thick wood 
and brushwood, at 11. Is. 4d. the quintal 
Boughs or broom to form the hedges for the 
worms to rise upon - - - - 
Paper to put upon the wicker trays 
Oil for the lamps - 
Fumigating bottle - 
Expense of gathering the mulberry-leaves, 
at a rate of 22 sous 8 dec. per quintal 
100 days men’s labour, at 25 sous per day, 
women at 15 sous; when the men work 
extra' hours at night they get 10 sous 
more, and the women 5 sous additional, 
altogether amounting to 
Ground-rent, 1 , and interest of capital em- 
ployed for purchase of trays, wicker, and 
other trifling articles - - 
Milan livres. Sons. 
- 15 0 
1 15 
- 385 0 
20 0 
18 
14 
9 
1 
96 
0 
0 
0 
10 
103 10 
90 0 
Total - 754 Liv. M. 
Most of the paper and fagots of brooms may serve 
for the following year. 
613 lbs. 8 oz. of cocoons were drawn from 
the laboratory, which, sold at 34 sous 6 
dec., make about - 1063 0 
Net profit in favour of the person who has 
reared the worms on his own account - 309 8 sous. 
