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half pounds of carrots, squeeze them out thoroughly, and dry them; grate 
twelve to fourteen ounces of white bread; grind twelve to fourteen pounds 
of hemp seed; add the yolks of twelve to fifteen hard-boiled eggs. Mix 
all of them thoroughly, adding sweet oil or lard until the mixture is soft, 
but do not put ina greater supply of otl or lard, lest fat be engendered too 
rapidly. If they can be afforded, dried ant’s eggs, in any quantity up toa 
fourth part of the whole, will make the mixture better. If farina be added 
to this mixture, in the proportion of one-fourth of the whole, good ‘results 
will follow, though it is not a necessary ingredient. The preparation of 
this food will make some trouble, but it will well reward the pains in the 
charms which it adds to the mocking-bird alone, to say nothing of other 
‘species for which it is suitable. When once ready for use it can be fed 
with much less labor than fresh food, is not conducive to disease, as other 
kinds are, and will remain good fcr many months. A less amount than 
the above can be made, of course, but the same proportion of ingredients 
should be preserved. 
Red Bird, Cardinal and their Kind.— Make a mixture of rice (in the 
husk), hemp seed, sunflower seed, and wheat in the grain. Also, give corn, 
some fruit, meal-worms, and mocking-bird food made as above directed. 
219. GOLDFINCH AND NEST. 
Nightingale, Robin, Ete.—For nightingales, robins, some African 
finches and titmice, make a mixture as follows:—Bakea loaf of white bread 
very hard and grind or pound it fine; add the same quantity of grated 
carrots; a like amount of hard-boiled beef heart, ground, chopped, or, better 
still, grated; a smaller allowance of hemp seed. Thoroughly mix them, 
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