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to get when first taken away from their parents, will 

 their health and vigour greatly depend. 



" Possessing cages of the several kinds we have 

 described, you will have every requisite necessary for 

 the exhibition, breeding, and weaning of your cananes. 

 In any case, whether you have one or all, be sure that 

 the wire of which they are made be not brass, for this 

 produces verdigris which I need scarcely say, if eaten, 

 will be fatal to your pets. Let the drinking font be 

 the pear-shaped glass font, which is ever self-supplying, 

 and whose neck being inside the cage will preserve 

 your birds from the risk of being left without water. 

 For the ordinary seed I recommend the open drawer, 

 with a smaller one for a little hemp or other dainty. 

 These with a tin pan for sopped bread, or egg in 

 breeding-time will complete the fittings-up of your 

 cages, and leave nothing to be desired." 



Mr. Kidd recommends the following as the proper 

 dimensions for a breeding-cage : — " Length, 2 feet G 

 inches ; depth, 16 inches ; height, 22 inches. The 

 top and sides should be of wood, the front of strong 

 tin wire. Three or four perches should run across 

 the cage, and a little chamber, or rather one large 

 chamber divided into two, should be made imme- 

 diately under the top of the cage, to hold the nest- 

 boxes. 



" In the front of these compartments should be 



