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with cage only partly covered. Wrap the cage com- 

 pletely in three thicknesses of paper in winter ; in 

 spring and autumn two thicknesses ; in summer one 

 thickness. In summer only put two or three pencil 

 holes in the paper. 



DISEASES. Colds, draughts of air, poor seeds, and 

 impure water cause most diseases. A bird with a 

 cold is puffed up, sometimes remaining still on the 

 perch and breathing hard, and at other times hop- 

 ping about on the bottom of the cage and constantly 

 eating. Don't let the cold " run," for it will likely 

 run away with the bird. Use home remedies until 

 you can get proper medicines. Give the paste made 

 from one third of yolk and white of a hard boiled egg 

 grated or mashed, as much red pepper as will stay on 

 a ten cent piece, and two or three drops of olive or 

 table oil, all thoroughly mixed. Put from two to six 

 drops of whiskey in the drinking water which should 

 be given warm, that is from five per cent to ten per 

 cent of whiskey in the water. Keep the bird in a 

 quiet, warm place. When a bird does not take the 

 liquid remedies a small dropper should be used and 

 doses dropped in his mouth every two or three hours 

 as the case demands. Use Holden's Bird Cure No. 

 4 for cold or moulting. Also, hang a small strip of 

 raw, fat, salt pork in the cage. Let him eat this, and 

 put a new piece in every other day. 



Loss OF VOICE. When this is caused by a cold, 

 treat as above. If it is caused by the bird's having 

 sung too much, dissolve a piece of unflavored rock 

 candy the size of a pea in the drinking water; give 



