Supply of Food and Water. 



15 



a single grain will be allowed to hide itself; but the natural habits and instincts of the Canary 

 don't lead it to search in this way, and unless the quantity of seed thrown down be very trifling, 

 it will only be trodden in and hidden under the sand, to be swept up next morning. And 

 remember, the value of a fresh sprinkling of new, sweet stuff is much greater than the saving 

 effected by allowing it to remain till any seed it may contain is eaten up. All other seed must be 



FIG. I. — SELF-SUPPLYING HOPPER. 



given in self-supplying hoppers, by which plan there will always be food at command, and the 

 waste reduced to a mi-nimum. What is scattered from the hopper falls in one place, and may be 

 collected and sifted without so much probability of its being crushed and trodden into the floor. 

 All our sweepings go to the poultry ; but the fact of having poultry to pick over waste food is no 

 reason why food should be wasted. We give a handy form of self-supplying seed-hopper in 

 Fig. I. The top part of the front is of glass, so that the state of the supply can always be seen. 



FIG. 2. — LARGE FOUNTAIN. 



Water, plenty of it, fresh and clear, is best supplied from a large fountain, a drawing of« 

 which appears in Fig. 2. It is simply a gl^sg globe with a long neck inverted in an earthenware 

 pot open at the top, and furnished near the bottom with apertures, the lower edges of which are 

 slightly higher than the bottom of the glass neck. Smaller editions may be placed on suitable 

 brackets, the only thing required being that there shall be some kind of perch or other resting- 

 place, from which the birds can have free access to the water-holes. And let it be borne in mind 

 that though a bird's instinct leads it to build its nest, to look for food and water, and to be in 



