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CANARY-BIRD.. 
give them every third day, on a plate, inftead of 
the dry cake, a bit of white bread dipped in 
water and preiTed with the hand ; this bread not 
being fo fubffantial a food as the cake, will pre- 
vent them from growing too fat when hatch- 
ing : it will likewife be proper to give them at 
the fame time fome poppy feed?, but only once 
in two days, for fear of heating them too 
much : fugared bifcuit generally produces this 
effect, which is followed with another ftill more 
hurtful ; for when they are fed on bilcuit, they 
often lay addle eggs, or bring weak and fick- 
Iv young. While they have young, boil their 
rape-feed to deprive it of its acrimony. “ Long 
experience, fays Father Bougot, has taught me 
that this food is that which bell agrees with 
them, notwithffanding what all authors have 
laid who have written exprefsly on the fub- 
jeft.” 
After the eggs are all laid, give them plan- 
tain and lettuce feed to purge them, taking 
away however the young, for this food would 
weaken them, and muff be given only for two 
days to the parent birds. When you with to 
rear Canary-Birds with the thick, you muff not, 
according to the directions of molt bird-breed- 
ers, leave them with the mother to the eleventh 
or twelfth day; it is better to take away the 
young after the eighth day ; take them away in 
the neft, and leave nothing but the calc. The 
