. The California silk growers' manual / by Ewer. California Silk Culture Association; Silkworms. been thus collected they should be taken off and gathered in the hands, as shown in Fig. 8. When a sufficient number have been gathered to form a thread, the ends are brought together and connected with the reel, as in Fig. 9. The number to be thus united varies according to the fineness of the thread desired. The above is not given with depends very much upon the skill and care with which the reeling is done. The hatching and feeding season may be prolonged greatly beyond a single feeding sea
. The California silk growers' manual / by Ewer. California Silk Culture Association; Silkworms. been thus collected they should be taken off and gathered in the hands, as shown in Fig. 8. When a sufficient number have been gathered to form a thread, the ends are brought together and connected with the reel, as in Fig. 9. The number to be thus united varies according to the fineness of the thread desired. The above is not given with depends very much upon the skill and care with which the reeling is done. The hatching and feeding season may be prolonged greatly beyond a single feeding season by hatching the worms in succession for several weeks. The second hatching may be made, say four or six days after the first, and so on through a series of six or eight, or more, hatchings. The number of hatchings must be regulated by the character of the feed, for as the leaves become old and tough, they are gradually unfitted for mak- ing good silk. Hatching may be kept up as long as new and tender leaves can be pro- cured for feeding the young worms. By this method both space and labor may be greatly economized in the cocoonery. Where suc- cessive hatchings are adopted, the cocoons for producing eggs should be selected from either the first or second hatching; and, in any hatching, the cocoons that are produced by the worms that come out first are much preferable to those that appear later. The mere raising of cocoons is a very simple operation; but, in order to render it profitable, it is necessary that we should find a market, either for the eggs or cocoons, or for both. We have already, on page 4 shown that a market may be had for eggs in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Ewer, Warren Baxter, 1814-1906. San Francisco : Published under direction of the California Silk Culture Associat
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