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Our  Canaries 
must  never  be  taken  near  another  one  which  may,  in  due  course,  find  its  way  to  the 
bird-room — it  should  be  isolated  from  the  bird-room  both  directly  and  indirectly 
in  the  strictest  possible  sense,  until,  like  Caesar's  wife,  it  is  above  suspicion  and 
beyond  reproach.  Secondly :  if  the  cage  in  which  such  a  death  occurs  happens  to 
be  occupied  by  more  than  one  bird,  the  survivor,  or  survivors,  should  upon  no 
account  be  transferred  to  other  cages  and  left  in  the  room. 
In  the  event  of  the  disease  proving  to  be  of  an  infectious  and  contagious 
character  this  would  be  a  most  fatal  policy,  and  only  tend  to  spread  the  infection 
to  just  as  many  more  cages  and  appliances  as  they  were  allowed  to  come  in 
contact  with.  If  they  were  moved  from  the  cage  at  all,  it  would  be  quite  the  best 
thing  to  place  them,  in  a  temporary  abode,  such  as  an  old  cage  which  has  almost, 
or  quite,  earned  a  place  on  the  retired  list,  provided,  of  course,  it  is  clean  and  well 
disinfected,  and  keep  it,  or  them,  in  some  other  rooms  strictly  isolated  from  the 
general  stock. 
There  is,  however,  no  actual  necessity  to  remove  the  birds  from  the  cage 
until  the  nature  of  the  disease  has  been  verified,  as  the  chances  are  that  if  it  is 
infectious  the  birds  will  have  already  become  infected,  and  in  that  case  may  just 
as  well  remain  in  the  original  cage  and  the  whole  concern  be  transported  into 
isolated  quarters  to  await  developments  as  mentioned  just  now.  These  develop- 
ments we  shall  deal  with  in  the  proper  place  hereafter,  and  need  only  remark  here 
that  when  the  above  suggestion  to  transfer  the  birds  to  an  old  cage  for  isolation 
A  SELF-SUPPLYING  SEED-HOPPER. 
At  side  is  an  end  section,  which  shows  the  manner  in  which  the  seed  falls  from  the  upper  portion 
into  the  Seeding  trough. 
