Large numbers of mulberry trees are planted for rearing silkworms, especially in Kutais, Erivan, Elisavetpol (Nukha) and Baku (Shemakha); the groves occupy nearly 150,000 acres, and the winding of the silk gives employment to large numbers of the population. [Please select]
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A ceremony like that with the plough is performed by the emperor over the silkworms and mulberry-trees, whose leaves are the food of the worm. [Please select]
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It was always necessary to have some new trees at hand that the very young silkworms might have tender leaves to feed upon. [Please select]
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"I declare if we are not as quiet as though the silkworms were here already," said he. [Please select]
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No one who has not had the care of silkworms can realize the disastrous results of startling them. [Please select]
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Your father once lost an entire crop of silkworms because of a severe thunder-storm. [Please select]
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He couldn't take the chance of losing his silkworms, and I don't blame him, either. [Please select]
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"I do hope our silkworms won't get frightened and die, or else have something make them stop spinning." [Please select]
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"I wish the silkworms did not eat so much," grumbled Marie. [Please select]
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Hence many of them gave up silk-raising entirely and the price both of silkworms and of silk became enormous. [Please select]
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On the other hand, those caterpillars known as 'silkworms' make a dense cocoon of pure silk, consisting of two layers, the outer of coarse and the inner of fine threads.' [Please select]
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