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days, and a finer one tor use with the corn every day, 

 separate corn bins for peas, tares, wheat, dari, maize, 

 and canary seed; baths — I hke zinc baths, Sin. or -iin. 

 in depth, 20in. long by I'nn. wide, with a yin. flange 

 all round; these are easy to handle and keep clean, 

 whilst the flange is useful to keep the water from being 

 thrown all over the loft or flight floor, and to afl'ord a 

 resting place for the birds so that they may shake them- 

 selves on leaving the bath. Two or three small 

 sponges (these are most useful); a pair of small tweezers 

 a pair of large, and a pair of small scissors, a ball of 

 twine, a bottle of tinctvire of arnica, a bottle of iodine, 

 a tin of Epsom vSalts, a box of zinc ointment, a bottle 

 of glycerine, a bottle of Sanitas or Condy's Fluid, and 

 the show baskets, are all things which should be kept 

 in the pen room. 



THE PEN ROOM. 



In a large loft the pen room will be part of the 

 range, or a small house by itself. It should be fitted 

 with good broad shelves so as to accommodate a walk- 

 ing pen or two, and a number of ordinary show pens. 

 If the stud is only small, or if the outdoor accom- 

 modation is of a circumscribed character, then the pen- 

 room must be in the owner's dwelling house. Ever5' 

 stud, big or small, needs a pen room of some kind or 

 other. It is impossible to select birds for showing 

 or breeding unless they can be penned side by side. 

 x'-Vgain, such a room is most useful in case of temporary 

 indisposition. A day or two in a pen, and the applic- 

 ation of the ordinary remedies will often prevent a 

 serious an^J possibly fatal illness. A pen -room allows 

 of many things being done which could not be done 

 without it, and adds considerably to the pleasure to 

 be derived from a stud of birds. 



