Directions for the breeding and management of silk-worms . Extracted from the treatises of the abbé Boissier de Sauvages, and Pullein. With a preface, giving some account of the rise and progress of the scheme for encouraging the culture of silk, in Pennsylvania, and the adjacent colonies.

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Directions for the breeding and management of silk-worms . Extracted from the treatises of the abbé Boissier de Sauvages, and Pullein. With a preface, giving some account of the rise and progress of the scheme for encouraging the culture of silk, in Pennsylvania, and the adjacent colonies.