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may not have room enough for so large a cage, but the 

 nearer their cage approaches these dimensions, most 

 assuredly the better it will be for their young birds. 

 These cannot have too much room for exercise, and on 

 the quantity they are able 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 canaries. 

 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 e^^ in breeding- 

 time will complete the fittings-up of your cages, and 

 leave nothing to be desired. 



With this advice, and hoping my readers may profit 

 by the experience set forth in these pages, I wdll now 

 bid them Farewell. 



