. The Bird food company's book of cage birds:. Cage birds. 33 Range some Christmas trees around the walls and in the middle of the room. If, in addition to these, you can get any old roots or any such rough material, to place against or hang on the wall, you will find the birds will soon select the snug corners and begin to build. Give a supply of moss, soft hay, any buncn of fibrous roots you may meet with, or similar material, with which they will build the foundation of their nests; and plenty of soft doe hair. Add some rabbit-down, with which they will put the finish^ ing touch to a nest.
. The Bird food company's book of cage birds:. Cage birds. 33 Range some Christmas trees around the walls and in the middle of the room. If, in addition to these, you can get any old roots or any such rough material, to place against or hang on the wall, you will find the birds will soon select the snug corners and begin to build. Give a supply of moss, soft hay, any buncn of fibrous roots you may meet with, or similar material, with which they will build the foundation of their nests; and plenty of soft doe hair. Add some rabbit-down, with which they will put the finish^ ing touch to a nest. We illustrate two styles of nest boxes; No. i any tinner will make for you, and No. 2 you can make yourself out of cigar-box lids. We will send by mail, nest baskets of wire, ready for nailing against the wall, for 12 cents Fig. 2. BREEDING CANARIES FOR PROFIT. Besides being a most fascinating pastime Canary breeding when conducted intelligently, systematically, and on a suffi- ciently-large scale can be made a source of considerable profit. The spare time that nearly every man has before and after business is amply sufficient to care for even a hun- dred pairs of Canaries; and the business is one that is es- pecially suitable to be engaged in by women. _ Canaries are always in demand, and the better class of singers, the different fancy varieties, and especially mule birds are scarce and consequently command ready sale and high prices. Like breeding every other kind of live stock, the best is always the most remunerative, and we advise all who intend embarking in Canary breeding as a business, if they intend rearing singers, to select only the best singing males they can procure, mate them with females from St. Andreasberg, Germany, and to have a collection of wild singing birds, and the best grade of Andreasberg Rollers as teachers. When th^? young birds cannot be disposed of to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been di
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