CHAPTER V. 



MAKING STANDS. 



Section I. : Plain Stands. — The best stands 

 for the cabinet are simple wooden ones, either of 

 pine or other woods, turned by machinery with a 

 simple cross-piece for perching birds. As a rule, 

 the shaft should be about as high as the cross- 

 piece is long, but in cases of specimens with long 

 tails, the shaft should be somewhat higher, while 

 the base should a little exceed in diameter the 

 length of the perch, and should be about as thick 

 as the shortest diameter of the other parts. 



Section II. : Ornamental Stands. — Papier- 

 mache used for making ornamental stands is quite 

 difficult to make, but following is the receipt : 

 Reduce paper to a perfect pulp by boiling and 

 then rubbing through a sieve. To every quart of 

 this pulp add a pint of fine wood-ashes and a half 

 pint of plaster. Heat this mass over the fire, and 

 to every quart add a quarter of a pound of glue, 

 which has been thoroughly dissolved in a glue-pot. 



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