Show CHAPTER 5 SECOND acir aon I 1 about 15 feet square of hurdles will bo be required requited fyr thi numerous family during this thia age afler after this moul moult ting lug the tem temperature pe grature should be fb through ough a gt deg J to 75 e insects s h 0 u I 1 adnot be lifted fl from ibm their litter until they have a all nil 11 r recovered then lay a leaf on them then to crawl upon and distribute them upon the shelves or hurdles so as to give them plenty of room to grow and not crowd each other sixth day give ha now two 1 pounds of young and tender leaves and ibbots cur a ait iii ilithe coarser ear twan than the former feed at as before named name dand and after xe removing movIng phem ahem hem bem to clean clehr al shelves or h b ly y cleanse those froni from which they have bave been beau removed experience has proved thai the silkworm likes the lendor lender bougus boughs so jo much that they remain on them even when the leaves are consumed i seventh day six sir pounds of chopped leavel leaves divided and given at intervals of froni front two to three hourd through the tho day as early and laie late aa light the body of the worms now acquire a clear hue the head enlarges and becomes whiter place boughs where they appear to be too thick oh which they will immediately fasten and may thus be removed or distributed ta arup places not sufficiently covered eighth day give boisr now of well hopped chopped c and picked kicked leaves ox six and a half pounds distributed at intervals as before letting abe two first meals be the largest sf as some will begin to show symptoms consequent of the second mo boulting moul moui a biffi ting g hy by the usual prognostics of rearing their heads and declining to eat ninth day one obe pound six ounces only enly of picked tender leaves and chopped small will wiil be required eil cil distributed ls tri buted as in the boulting moul moui tinz ting before lightly over them on orl this day it jt again recovering its periodic restlessness of the change it is eink bink sinking ilig under a torpor the next day its lis a w wardrobe is disposed of a and d it become co me as eager or more of Ats third lite life as it was of the first their thor color is now become of a light grey the hair hlin aias Jias become BO so much shorter as to be tte hardly perceptible t the eye eyes the muzzle muzzie which athe first age wa was very blackf black hard aard and because immediately on moul moui ting white and bofty boft soft now becomes again black shining and find shelly as before and a as the llis iris insect i ett becomes later at each eaph boulting moul ting its muzzle hart haTt hardens lens became because it needs to saw and bite lar gerand older leaves h CHAPTER 6 TT AGE AGU L tenth day give six pounds of small shoots and hix eix pounds of leaves choppe chopped d small mallat at tha the clase clabe of this age e tuey they may b ha e chopped d more Cour sely kely the worms that tuat have accomplished this age hould i nuo nut be removed from the shela shaves es 01 hurdles until they y a ane are re nearly mearly recovered pal pat part will rouse on the ninth day and part odi on the tho tenth day so no injurious consequences will wilt ensue if it the portion revived should walt wait twelve or alf fifteen wen won hours till 1111 the rest uro are ready A never mever tailing sign that they are roused to the motion they display with their head the foods food should be care eare carefully fully distributed over the shelves so 60 as not to ferment which would cause noxious capora vapors as before anu ana wili will occupy thirty fl fiva five vb feet red t square of shelves or burd hurd hurdles les leg eleventh day dayt give sa parate separate meals eighteen lof lot chopped I 1 leaves the first meal should be the least the worms will explain the reasons themselves as in the latter jatter part of the day they are voraciously hungry twelfth day nineteen enanda and a half pounds picked leaves leavea wanted chopped and dif did divided dod and tho the usual meals being gi given veil vell taw towards h ads rev evening e 11 ilg ing their hunger bezine begins to nabate abate therefore a iho tho lasu last mal rural should be the tho best the now cow groni grow krow fast fat their skins skin become whiter whlter their thein bodies transparent and their heads lon gerand theaon the contortions tort ions tons they make mako makeshift seo apat hat bat their chanse change approaches thirteenth day ten and h half pounds of leaves leave swill will b be P sufficient adele tit chopped ohop ped as before give li be usual number of meals thib thia largest first the tho last meal the least bayl r keding ceding ding only them that require it hodle hould j a great gibat bo pe torpid while others require ohly alight I 1 meal wity without lout waiting foz fog the stated hours of feeding li in order to t satisfy them that they inay may sin sink into a torpor special care of this kind is important and intermediate meals meala are giyen given lyen iven with disere discretion tion which wili will drove prove beneficial fourteenth day five elve and aud a half pounds of picked and leaves will be sufficient in ordinary casesi cases mare or less aa as iho the caio caie cae may require indications of silk bilk now nov begin to appear ap bear irom the 0 occasional depositions of thal iii lil ree see L I 1 rhe fhe worm now mani manifests edi edv inal inclinations batlo Aatlo ns yo for r so solitude andfrew and free to slum ber her in it either climbs leaves or in failure of f that on the litter its ita head expresses 9 ita its uneasiness Immediate immediately lF on 60 the verge a of change they avoid all gross matter the only fluid remaining g inthe gh animal libal this is that whish prior to their change chango gives them a yellowish white color like amber whilst the tha worm thus the boulting moul moui ting ly clear by mo moderate defate ventilation the the doco onery fifteenth day on ort this day the rousing of bf the worms which they begin to manifest ia Is an au indication of the third ago age th the 8 muzzle of the worm woren during til tuis this age ha has main a reddic reddish ih color ellbry it is no longer shining and black blaek as it appeared in its first A gs ages but now become more lengthened ned and wind pioma prominent the hedda iid tid body arg are much atthe at the edin completion lation of tb isake this age the body of the w worm rm Is more inore wrinkled becomes a yellow white or fawn color and wit without houta a glass no hair is visible D ini this age we have a peculiar hissing nobl noise se the thu noise noise does not proceed from the action of theja the jaw v but thui he continual motion odthe of the feet feel that sounds souna not unlike a shower of ofrain naib nain until they fasten on the wood ceases |