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cress,  dandelion,  lettuce,  celery  tops;  and  in  winter  apple,  banana  or  carrot. 
In  February  feed  two  or  three  days  a  week  on  egg  food,  half  teaspoonful  per 
bird ;  for  hens  a  little  cream  should  be  mixed  in  with  a  steel  fork  if  possible." 
THE   SCOTSMAN'S  METHOD. 
Before    closing  our   chapter    on    this    important    subject,   we  give  the 
opinions  of  two  breeders  of  Scotland's  national 
Canary.  Mr.  R.  G.  Joliffe,  of  Glasgow,  says  : — 
"  As  regards  the  feeding  of  newly  paired 
birds,  give  them  plenty  of  finely  -  chopped  egg 
with  biscuit.  I  generally  use  one  of  the  small 
mills,  costing  one  shilling,  two  teaspoonsful  of 
this,  with  a  little  maw  seed  and  crushed  hemp 
with  the  husks  blown  off  as  much  as  possible, 
and  once  a  week  a  little  linseed  and  teazle 
seed." 
FEEDING  FOR  EXHIBITION. 
When  preparing  birds  for  show,  Mr.  Joliffe 
goes  on  to  say — "For  several  weeks  previous  to 
your  show  date  you  should  begin  to  feed  them 
with  a  little  hard  boiled  egg  and  biscuit — we  in 
Scotland  use  Tea  biscuits  or  rusks  (such  as  are 
given  to  infants)  crushed  to  small  particles,  and 
mixed  with  the  yolk  of  egg.  Here,  again,  the 
small  mill  will  be  found  useful.  Putting  the  egg 
and  biscuit  in  together  blends  both  nicely,  equal 
proportions  of  biscuit  and  egg.  This  should  be 
given  fresh  every  morning,  with  a  little  maw  seed 
every  second  day.  No  green  food  should  be 
given  at  this  time.  Small  bits  of  carrot  will 
make  their  feathers  nice  and  glossy  and  tight  in 
feather." 
The  egg  producing  organs  of  a 
Canary  about  eight  hours  before 
the  second  egg  of  a  clutch  is  due. 
1.  Etfg  due  in  three  hours. 
2.  Ovule  to  form  egg  due  in  thirty-two 
hours. 
3.  Ovule  to  lorm  egtf  due  in  fiSty-six 
hours. 
4.  Ovule  due  in  eighty  hours. 
A.  Aperture   in   Oviduct    to  receive 
Ovule. 
B.  Oviduct. 
C.  Vent. 
From  a  sketch  kindly  supplied  by 
Dr.  T.  A.  Bowes. 
THE    USE    OF    LIME  WATER. 
In  the  notes  which  are  kindly  contributed  by  Mr.  John  McLennan,  of 
Edinburgh,  a  well-known  breeder  of  the  Scotch  Fancy,  it  is  of  interest  to 
note  the  use  which  is  made  of  lime  water  in  preparing  the  food.  "  In  rearing 
the  young,"  he  writes,  "I  have  always  used  Tea  biscuits — two  biscuits  to  one 
egg,  in  addition  to  two  tablespoonsful  of  stale  bread  dried  in  the  oven  and 
ground  in  the,  egg  mill,  moistened  with  lime  water  and  sweet  milk  in  equal 
proportions  (the  milk  to  be  scalded),  until  it  is  in  a  nice,  crumbly  condition. 
