Birds The Canary 
The seed diet of English canaries should consist 
of two parts canary seeds, one part rape seed, with 
a little white millet, plantain, groundsel and chick- 
weed seed. German canaries should have two parts 
rape, one part canary seed, and a little white millet. 
Those firms making a specialty of bird foods, like 
the famous Spratts, sell a wide range of seeds and 
insectivorous foods, tonics and medicines, with 
which it would be well for the keeper of canaries to 
become familiar. 
My neighbor, Mrs. Frederick Bedell, resuscitated 
her canary after it was lying apparently dead from a 
chill. She mixed a drop of bacon fat with cayenne 
pepper, and forced it into the beak of the bird, and 
after a little it revived; she kept it wrapped warmly 
until it seemed quite recovered. For a day or two 
she gave the bird a little of the fat and the pepper 
daily. A piece of raw, salt, fat pork given three 
times a week is a great help to a bird suffering from 
a cold and hoarseness. 
CARE 
It is most necessary that the drinking dish be filled 
with fresh water daily, for these little prisoners 
need to drink often. 
The canary should have an opportunity to bathe 
three times a week. The bath dish should hold 
water to the depth of three-fourths of an inch and 
it is a good plan to have a layer of clean sand or 
gravel in the bottom. The water should be tepid. 
To give the bird its bath, take the cage off its base 
and place it over the bath tub; then remove the 
perches and the seed’ and drinking cups so that there 
may be nothing to distract the bird’s attention 
from the business at hand. The birds imported 
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