Millard County Chronicle | 1934-02-08 | Page 4 | Silk Worms Grow Fast

silk worm worms grow fast son e astonish ast onist i I 1 u baat stis on th rate of growth of a 5 tooig ou 9 silk worm v orm were published bv the state N rn a al school at I 1 low oa ell A 1 ass iss after a set les of espelin ants with nith these wl en a sill worm Is ten dij s old it we gs as a gram grain ten times its inal N v eight of 1 1 20 0 of a gram at tl e age of twenty days it s 3 grams or sixty times its original we in another 80 30 das dabs it will have p t on 28 add cionni grains grams of weight br ng ing it to times its nal weight by the time it Is forty das dabs old it will be I 1 SOO times as heavy as when it v wag as hatched and at the age of fifty s i x flays days when the worm has reached its full de development elop ment it will we gh 07 gram or 4 times its or original we in the course of this 50 56 days the silk worm orm will have consumed not le les than 11 10 oak leaves weighing three quarters of a pound