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CHAPTER III. 



rOOD AND GENEKAL MANAGEMENT. 



The proper food for the canary is canary seed,, 

 which should be large and glassy, mixed with about 

 one fourth part of the best rape seed ; and little else 

 is required except green food, such as chickweed,, 

 groundsel, or watercress, which should be given fresh 

 every day, with a plentiful supply of clean water, both 

 for drinking and bathing purposes. The bottom of 

 '-he cage should be covered with fine sharp red sand, 

 and the perches (which should be square and firmly 

 fixed) regularly scraped, so as to maintain perfect 

 cleanliness. 



Great variety of food is not required, and "as* 

 it is simple and natural, it will be wholesome ; and 

 on the contrary, the more it is mixed and rare, the 

 more injurious and productive of disease it will be. 

 What I have found the best is summer rape seed ; 

 I mean that which is sown at the end of spring, which' 



* Bechstein's 'History of Cage Birds,' with coloured plates. - 

 Price 3^. Gd. Grooncbridj^e and Sons' edition. 



