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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