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"milk of hemp-seed;" which is extremely 

 strengthening and nourishing to young 

 birds. The water fount should always be 

 removed before placing the medicine in 

 the cage. 



When you bring up birds by hand, they 

 require frequent feeding, and should be 

 attended to every two hours at farthest. 

 To ensure complete and permanent suc- 

 cess, there is no other thing so absolutely 

 necessary as regularity, by which I mean 

 the observing the utmost strictness in 

 keeping to the same hours of feeding 

 every day; these hours being as frequent 

 as possible. They should be fed with a 

 small piece of sharpened wood, and at the 

 time of feeding, allowed as much as they 

 will eat, which is generally four or five 

 mouthfuls. It will be easy to perceive 

 when they are fully satisfied, as they then 

 refuse to open their mouths, at which 

 time the operation should cease, as were 

 the feeder to force them to swallow more, 

 it would have the effect not only of dis- 



