This article aims to develop and improve the methods of acceptance of cultivated cocoons according to quality indicators, determination of cocoon shell mass and silkiness, to determine the quality indicator of received cocoons, including the influence of cocoon moisture on cocoon silkiness. Based on the results of the experiment, using the mathematical statistics method, the mass of the samples of mulberry silkworm cocoons, the mass of the shell of the cocoons, and the silkiness of the cocoons samples, as well as the mass of the cocoons, the mass of the shell of the cocoons, and the silkiness of the cocoons samples were determined. Equations for calculating the values of cocoon moisture (W) of the corrections to be made in the determination have been found.

cocoon, silkiness, cocoon moisture, cocoon mass, cocoon shell mass.