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it is dropped j but that of the third will hatch of itfelf, if it be not carefully kept in acool place.
Bologna . — One hundred pounds of cocoons are made from one ounce of feed, andyield feven pounds and a half to eight pounds and a halt of filk, of twelve ounces. Priceof cocoons, twenty to twenty-five balocca. Silk, thirty-four pauls, at 6d. the pound.
Tuscany.— Florence. —Making inquiries here concerning the new fort of filk worm,
1 found that they were not, as I had been before told, a new difcovery in Italy , but knownlong ago ; and, what is remarkable, is prohibited by law, in order to preferve the mul-berry trees from being (tripped more than once. The filk made from them is not morethan half as good as the common, and very inferior in quantity alfo. They affert here,that by means of heat they can hatch the eggs of the common fort when they pleafe, butnot for any ul'e, as they die directly; which is not the cafe with the new fpecies, or thatas it is called di tre volte.
Their contrivance for winding filk is very convenient, and well adapted to fave labour;one man turns for a whole row of coppers, the fires for which are without the w'all; andtheclofets with fmall boilers of water, for killing the animal in its cocoon b) (team, aieequally well adapted.
At Martelli, near Florence , on a farm of one hundred and ninety Jliori (thirty-fouracres) there are forty or fifty mulberries, enough for one ounce of grain, which givesfifty pounds or fixty pounds of cocoons, and fix pounds or feven pounds of filk. Priceof cocoons this year, i pauls the pound ; lalt year 2| ; and in 1787 it was $pauls. Inthe culture of the trees they do not pra&ice fuch attentions as the French in Dauphine;they never dig about them, except when young ; never walh the Items ; they prune thetrees when neceflary, but not by any rule of years. The bed fort is the wild mulberry,but it yields the leait quantity ; next, the white fruit.
In 1782, Sig. Don. Gio. Agemi di Giun, prelate of the Greek Catholic church, onMount Libanus, exhibited to the academicians Georgofili of Florence , the 4th of De-cember, fome filk worms, in number thirty eight, part of which had already made theircocoons, and part ready to make them, asaccuftomed to do in his own country, with theleaves of the wild mulberry. The feed was hatched in Otbober : the worms fed withleaves, procured from warm gardens; cocoons were made in November; mallow leavesW'ere ufed alfo *.
Modena . —The export of filk from the city forty-fix thoufand pounds, at 38 livres(qd. each); from the whole territory, fixty thoufand zeccbini.
Piedmont. — Pavele — Immediately on entering the dominions of the King of Sar-dinia , within two miles of St. Giovanne, mulberries are found regularly every w r here,and continue to Turin . Seven-eighths of them are about twenty or twenty five yearsold; fome however are amongft the larged I have feen.
They are very fcarce throughout Lombardy ; there is a fcattering between Modena and Reggio ; and Count Tocoli, five or fix miles from Parma, planted feveral thoufandsalong a canal, on the birth of his daughter, for her portion, but there is not in any partof Lombardy , any law which in fuch cafes fecures the groperty of the trees thus planted,to the child they are intended for; it is merely private confidence.
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