The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 383
ve as much ofthe wetness as possible. If mulberry leaves cannot be procured the worms willfeed uponlettuce leaves, or even dandelion; and it has been said, thatwhen fedonlettuce leaves,if keptin awarm temperature,they willproduce cocoons equal to those of worms fed on the mulberry leaf,but the… … VE3333JS& The eggs from which the silkworm is produced are aboutthe size of a pins head, and the worm, when it first leaves theshell, is almost black, and about a quarter of an inch in length.As soon as mulberry or lettuce leaves are placed near it willbegin to feed, and will crawl on to the…
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