. The Bird food company's book of cage birds:. Cage birds. 12 SOFT-BILLED To this class belong all birds that live on a varied diet ol seeds, berries, and insects. They are more delicate in con- finement than seed-eating birds, but are finer and sweeter songsters, and well repay the extra care and trouble. Their diet should consist principally of Prepared Mock- ing Bird Food, but care should be taken to see that only our food is used, nearly all other being cheaply made and not fit for birds to eat; causing vertigo, blindness, undue fatness, and in many in- stances death. Here is the r
. The Bird food company's book of cage birds:. Cage birds. 12 SOFT-BILLED To this class belong all birds that live on a varied diet ol seeds, berries, and insects. They are more delicate in con- finement than seed-eating birds, but are finer and sweeter songsters, and well repay the extra care and trouble. Their diet should consist principally of Prepared Mock- ing Bird Food, but care should be taken to see that only our food is used, nearly all other being cheaply made and not fit for birds to eat; causing vertigo, blindness, undue fatness, and in many in- stances death. Here is the recipe from which most of the widely-sold foods are made: Roasted beef pluck, musty pilot-biscuit, corn meal, ground hemp seed, pulverized sugar made moist with lard. The ingredients of prepared food for soft-billed birds have always been kept a profound secret by professional bird fanciers; and it cost us $250 to procure the above recipe from a prominent New York manufacturer of bird foods. After we learned it we found, as we had before suspicioned, that it was not only worthless but positively injurious. But it gave us a basis to work on, and after several years' experiment we produced a food the ingredients of which are as follows, only the proper proportions being reserved: Roasted beef heart, toasted wheat bread, and best quality maw meal; ant eggs, dried sweet potatoes, pea meal, and dried currants; the whole made moist with melted beef suet. This food is put up in jars holding nearly a pound, and sold by druggists for 35c. The contents of one jar of Pre- pared Mocking Bird Food will be sent by mail on receipt of 40 cts. Or dry to which the buyer can add the melted suet or lard to make it moist as needed, 25e., by mail 4Dc. The principal thing needed to keep soft-billed birds in constant health and song is, first, a good prepared lood as a . basis, and then variety. The food should be given plain one day; one part, grated carrot (squeezed dry), to three parts,prepared food
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