396 The Canary Book. 



EXPENSES. A schedule of prizes ought to be framed in 

 accordance with the amount of subscriptions received and 

 the prospects of the association. 



To get up a show in a decent and praiseworthy manner 

 will cost from 40 upwards. The following comprise the 

 principal items of expenditure: Prize moneys (say, 20), use 

 of hall for exhibition purposes (say, 4, this to include gas, 

 fires, &c.), two men (two days at 5s. per day) to attend the 

 birds, including feeding and giving them water to drink, &c., 

 1 ; two men (two days at 5s. each) to collect money taken 

 at door, and to check tickets, &c., 1; judges' fees, 2 2s.; 

 travelling expenses, paid to judges and hotel bill for same, 

 2; printing, 5; postage stamps, stationery, and sundries, 

 1 15s.; advertising, 1; conveyance for taking birds from 

 railway station to show room and back to station, 8s.; pro- 

 fessional packers to pack birds, 15s.; amounting in all to 

 40. And this is a moderate bill of costs for a respectable 

 show. The printing is the heaviest item, but I like every- 

 thing connected with this department well done, as it reflects 

 credit upon the management, and is, I imagine, a sort of 

 credential by which the respectability of a society of this 

 sort is measured; bad paper, bad printing, and bad type, are 

 all emblematic of vulgarity, parsimony, and bad taste at 

 least, I think so. 



SCHEDULES. It will be found a tolerably safe plan in 

 arranging a schedule of prizes for a bird show to keep the 

 amount of prize money a few pounds within the sum total 

 received in the shape of subscriptions. To meet an expendi- 

 ture of 40, which we will select merely as an example, 20 

 should be realised from the patrons alone and 5 more by 

 donations from the public. The entrance fees may be estimated 

 at 13, the charges for admissions at the doors 6, the sale 

 of tickets by members 1, sale of catalogues and commission 

 charged on the sale of birds 1, total 46 which would leave 

 a balance in the hands of the treasurer for the following 

 year of 6, and this may be considered as a very modest 

 estimate indeed, as, in an ordinary way, the subscriptions, 

 as well as the entrance fees, and takings at the; doors, should 



