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milk, u-lien used cold, will not disagree, though it 

 does when boiled. 



Boiled milk is admitted to be unhealthy, raw milk 

 is considered harmless. Therefore, in some instances 

 when cold milk has been found injurious, this may 

 possibly arise from the fact that, though cold, it was 

 not raw, but scalded milk. As far as a short trial 

 (with bought milk too) can be depended on, I quite 

 believe the fact is thus accounted for. 



4. I proceed to give Bechstein's three recipes, which 

 do not appear to have been since surpassed, as a 

 general food. 



Let a supply of wheaten bread be baked without 

 salt sufficient for three months' use may be done at 

 one time. The loaves should be kept till stale, and 

 then be replaced in the oven when a baking is taken 

 out, and remain there while it cools. The dried bread 

 may then be easily ground or pounded into a kind 

 of meal, which will keep good for three months. A 

 large tea- spoonful of this meal is sufficient for each 

 bird's share, and this should be mixed with three 

 times the quantity of warm milk, on no account 

 suffered to boil. This makes a thick paste, which may 

 be chopped up on a board, and is very nourishing. 



Poppy seeds or a few flies may with great advantage 

 be mixed up with this paste. Another excellent 

 paste, the one alluded to above as feeding so many 

 birds, is recommended both for its cheapness and its 



