The useful arts and manufactures of Great Britain (1861)
Tomlinson, Charles, 1808-1897, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education · London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 388
24 ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. growth of the insect causes tlie wrinkles to disappear from the skin ; it is now half an inch in length ; a second sickness, 'and a second moulting, prepare it for increase of growth ; it casts its skin as before, and feeds without intermission during another five days,… … PROGRESSIVE GROWVH OF THE SILKWOKM. wiiich it casts its skin for the fourth and last time in the caterpillar state. It is now about one and a half or two inches in length, and devours its food voraciously, increasing rapidly in size during ten days. ^Yhen the worms are fed, a slight hissing noise…
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