. Bishop, the bird man's book, on the care and management of birds . HBOUpUETSltCUTtFLO¥ERStflNDlDESIGNSh PLAHTS, Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, &c. country seats laid out. gardens planted and kept. Plans and Estimates Furnished on Application. 17 Luxuries for Mocking Birds—You may change with the seasons. Nevergive strawberries, tomatoes, melons, or other watery fruits, as they are aptto cause loose bowels. Elderberries, huckleberries, pokeberries, cedarberriesand gumberries are all very good, say from ten to fifteen a day. Care mustbe taken not to feed too many pokeberries, and not till
. Bishop, the bird man's book, on the care and management of birds . HBOUpUETSltCUTtFLO¥ERStflNDlDESIGNSh PLAHTS, Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, &c. country seats laid out. gardens planted and kept. Plans and Estimates Furnished on Application. 17 Luxuries for Mocking Birds—You may change with the seasons. Nevergive strawberries, tomatoes, melons, or other watery fruits, as they are aptto cause loose bowels. Elderberries, huckleberries, pokeberries, cedarberriesand gumberries are all very good, say from ten to fifteen a day. Care mustbe taken not to feed too many pokeberries, and not till they have had a littlefrost; chicken grapes are good also. When berries cannot be had, driedcurrants, ten to fifteen a day, soaked in boiling water from ten to twelveminutes, are a good substitute. Mocking Birds are also very fond of meal-worms or ant eggs. Sold by bird, dealers General Rules for Feeding Parrots. Parrots will eat most anything that comes to the table, and are conse-quently generally ill fed. Many persons come to me with the followingwords: Mr. Bishop, what is the matter with my Parrot, he is losing andpicking all his feathers from his breast and wings ? My answer is: Youare feeding your Parrot with anything and everything from the table, andhe has a constant itching, caused by heated blood, the consequences of im-proper food. Parrots naturally live on seeds and fruit, and should, in captiv-ity, be fed on hemp seed, yellow corn and sunflower seed, stale bread soakedin water and well squeezed out again, occasionally a piece of sweet apple orbanana; a few roasted peanuts are good, or a dry cracker; water to drinkinstead of coffee; many people use coffee (wrong); plenty gravel in thecage; clean the cage every day, as some of the stale bread spilled will getsour, and if picked up and eaten by the bird would cause trouble. Parrotstongues do not req
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