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Ash seeds. Partridge berries. 



Dried mulberries. Barn loft sweepings. 



Home-made Bird Pudding 



An excellent and economical food, because hardly a 

 crumb is wasted, is the Home-made Bird Pudding. 

 The recipe for this, as we made it, follows: it is practi- 

 cally the Von Berlepsch bird food as it appears in the 

 Meriden Bird Club Report. Great latitude is possible 

 in making this food, but the hemp, meat, bread, and 

 fat are essential. The fat must be melted and the dry 

 materials stirred in thoroughly. 



White bread (dried and ground), 4! oz. 

 Meat (scrap chicken food), 3 oz. 

 Hemp seed, 6 oz. 

 Maw (poppy seed), 3 oz. 

 Millet (white French), 3 oz. 

 Japanese millet, 3 oz. 

 Oats, 1 J oz. 



Dried elderberry, i\ oz. 

 Sunflower seeds, I J oz. 

 Suet, twice total bulk. 



A bird tree is prepared by pouring this mixture hot 

 over an old Christmas tree. This hot soup should be 

 put on a dead tree only, as it will kill any living one. 



A food stick is made by making a series of auger 

 holes in a log and filling the holes with this mixture 

 when hot. When it cools, the material can be picked 

 out by the birds, but squirrels and crows cannot carry 

 it off in bulk. 



This pudding can also be served in shallow pans or in 

 solid pieces in feeding stations or tied in loose meshed 

 bags as suet is. 



