The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . ide, filledwith a gummy substance v/liich be-comes silky as it dries. The wormnever breaks his thread as he spins,and it is said one ball contains entiresilk enough to reach six miles. Theseballs are called cocoons. .These answer the same purpose asthe chrysalis of the butterfly ; and ifthey were let alone, a delicate whitemoth would eat its way out of each ofthem : but the holes thus eaten wouldbreak the silk in pieces ; therefore, inorder to kill the moths, the cocoonsare baked or scalded. Those that arereserved for eggs are la
The household cyclopædia of practical receipts and daily wants . ide, filledwith a gummy substance v/liich be-comes silky as it dries. The wormnever breaks his thread as he spins,and it is said one ball contains entiresilk enough to reach six miles. Theseballs are called cocoons. .These answer the same purpose asthe chrysalis of the butterfly ; and ifthey were let alone, a delicate whitemoth would eat its way out of each ofthem : but the holes thus eaten wouldbreak the silk in pieces ; therefore, inorder to kill the moths, the cocoonsare baked or scalded. Those that arereserved for eggs are laid aside in thedark on sheets of paper. As soon asthe moth comes out of her cocoon,she lays her eggs and dies. A fewminutes attention each day, for six orseven weeks, is all that is person can attend to fifty thou-sand. It takes two thousand wormsto produce a pound of silk. Every-thing about them must be kept cleanand sweet. They must have freshmulberry leaves two or three times aday ; and must neither be coveredwith dew aor dried in the hot
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