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Besides, it is a matter of greater profit to 

 the breeder, since the parents the sooner 

 gather strength, and are capable of raising 

 a greater number of birds in a season. 

 The young, as I before said, likewise be- 

 come more familiar, and are far less apt 

 to die during the time of moulting. 



The quantity of birds gained by this 

 treatment is, on the average, at the least 

 one more brood of young to every pair of 

 adults; and these can, without fatiguing or 

 doing themselves the slightest injury, raise 

 four and sometimes even five nests in one 

 summer; the next season being as fully 

 able and in as good a position to breed, 

 as they were at the commencement of the 

 one previous. 



Should a frosty day or two occur when 

 the young are first hatched, the warmth 

 of the apartment in which they are situated 

 must be increased, to prevent any fatal 

 results; and should there be any prospect 

 of a long continuance of cold weather, the 

 pairs that have not then laid should be 



