Canaries and Nestlings. 
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if you can’t afford a slight frame — and let it slide 
like a box-lid along either side of the cage ; you 
will understand perfectly how easy it will be, with 
a few wire hooks for rests, to keep the glass in its 
place. The same glass should do on either side, 
and it need not cost more than three-pence or four- 
pence each foot. 
One whole end of the cage should open as a 
door, or else the centre of the cage itself may do 
so. It is quite easy to have these doors arranged 
at first, but altering afterwards makes a sad mess 
of cages. The fewer little doors you have, too, 
the better ; they don’t look pretty, and are very 
tiresome when clever birds unhook them. 
You can feed your Canaries the same as other 
birds, with canary, and hemp, and rape. Clean their 
cage well daily, washing the perches now and then 
with a little soap and water, and letting them dry 
slowly before you put them back. You ought, by 
rights, to have two sets of deal perches. 
If you had a long cage with three partitions of 
wire sliding in from top to bottom, you might 
quite well have three sets of birds. But you must 
not try to have, otherwise, more than one pair at a 
time to build in the same cage. For that you 
must wait till you are an experienced bird-keeper. 
