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Robert Kemp Philp
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Treatment
of
Canaries.
Care
must
be
taken
to
keep
canaries
very
clean.
For
this
purpose,
the
cage
should
be
strewed
every
morning
with
clean
sand,
or
rather,
fine
gravel,
for
small
pebbles
are
absolutely
essential
to
life
and
health
in
cage-birds:
fresh
water
must
be
given
every
day,
both
for
drinking
and
bathing;
the
latter
being
in
a
shallow
vessel;
and,
during
the
moulting
season,
a
small
bit
of
iron
should
be
put
into
the
water
for
drinking.
The
food
of
a
canary
should
consist
principally
of
summer
rape
seed
that
is,
of
those
small
brown
rape
seeds
which
are
obtained
from
plants
sown
in
the
spring,
and
which
ripen
during
the
summer;
large
and
black
rape
seeds,
on
the
contrary,
are
produced
by
such
plants
as
are
sown
in
autumn
and
reaped
in
spring.
A
little
chickweed
in
spring,
lettuce
leaves
in
summer,
and
endive
in
autumn,
with
slices
of
sweet
apple
in
winter,
may
be
safely
given;
but
bread
and
sugar
ought
to
be
generally
avoided.
Occasionally,
also,
a
few
poppy
or
canary
seeds,
and
a
small
quantity
of
bruised
hemp
seed
may
be
added,
but
the
last
very
sparingly.
Cleanliness,
simple
food,
and
fresh
but
not
cold
air,
are
essential
to
the
well-being
of
a
canary.
During
the
winter,
the
cage
should
never
be
hung
in
a
room
without
a
fire,
but
even
then,
when
the
air
is
mild,
and
the
sun
shines
bright,
the
little
prisoner
will
be
refreshed
by
having
the
window
open.
The
cage
should
never
be
less
than
eight
inches
in
diameter,
and
a
foot
high,
with
perches
at
different
heights.
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