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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in 1859 and was brought up in London. He started work as a railway clerk at fourteen, and later was employed as a schoolmaster, actor and journalist. He published two volumes of comic essays and in 1889 Three Men in a Boat. This was an instant success. His new-found wealth enabled him to become one of the founders of The Idler, a humorous magazine which published pieces by W W Jacobs, Bret Harte, Mark Twain and others. In 1900 he wrote a sequel, Three Men on the Bummel, which follows the adventures of the three protagonists on a walking tour through Germany. Jerome married in 1888 and had a daughter. He served as an ambulance driver on the Western Front during the First World War and died in 1927.
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Canary Breeding and Management for Amateurs with Twelve Illustrations - Jerome K. Jerome
CANARY BREEDING
AND
MANAGEMENT
FOR AMATEURS.
BY JEROME.
With Twelve Illustrations.
FIFTH EDITION.
YORKSHIRE AND NORWICH CANARIES.
PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION.
THAT in less than four years, three successive Editions (each of 2,500 copies) of this work should have been exhausted, is, I think, practical evidence of its value. Its necessity is obvious to any one who studies the Answers to Queries
by its Author, week by week in The Feathered World.
Some verbal alterations have been made in the present edition, advantage has been taken of the type being entirely re-set to slightly alter the position of two articles, and, in order to render the work more useful, three new illustrations have been prepared, and the old ones engraved afresh, with, I think, satisfactory results.
ETHEL COMYNS.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTORY
BIRDS
CAGES
PERCHES AND PLATFORMS
WHITEWASHING CAGES
SMALL CAGES AS A CAUSE OF DISEASE
WATER
FOOD
SAND
PREPARING FOR BREEDING
THE EGG
EGG-BOUND
TAKING EGGS AWAY
YOUNG BIRDS THROWN OUT OF NEST
PUTTING THE YOUNG UNDER ANOTHER HEN
PLUCKING THE YOUNG BIRDS
How TO HAND-FEED YOUNG BIRDS
HENS FEEDING YOUNG
HENS STARVING THE YOUNG
LOOKING AT THE YOUNG
HEN SWEATING HER YOUNG
YOUNG BIRDS DYING IN THE SHELL
TAKING THE HEN AWAY
SEPARATING THE YOUNG FROM THE PARENTS
TEMPERATURE
INSECTS
CAKED FEET
CUTTING CLAWS
SUNLIGHT, GAS, DRAUGHTS
YOUNG BIRDS IN FLIGHT
SKIN DISEASE
FEEDING FOR COLOUR
MOULTING
WASHING BIRDS FOR SHOW BENCH
RUNNING TWO OR THREE HENS WITH ONE COCK
DAMP ROOMS
CRESTED CANARIES
EVENLY MARKED NORWICH
BELGIANS
YORKSHIRES
THE LANCASHIRE COPPY
CINNAMONS
LIZARDS
SCOTCH FANCIES
MULE BREEDING
DISEASES OF CAGE BIRDS
ILLUSTRATIONS.
YORKSHIRE AND NORWICH CANARIES
JEROME’S BREEDING CAGE
CRESTED NORWICH
LANCASHIRE PLAINHEAD
SCOTCH FANCY
EVENLY MARKED NORWICH
BELGIAN CANARY
LANCASHIRE COPPY
YELLOW CINNAMON
SILVER SPANGLED LIZARD
CANARY BULLFINCH MULE
NORWICH CANARY
INDEX
CANARIES.
Introductory.
WHAT! another Book on Canaries, I fancy I hear the reader say,
I thought the subject was thrashed to pieces long ago. To a certain extent the reader is right in his conclusion; nevertheless there are many points which up to the present time have not been sufficiently explained in the books that have been published, consequently, Amateur Breeders have been misled, despaired of success, and given up the
Fancy" in disgust.
At the urgent request of a number of friends, I have resolved to write this little book in the hope that it may help fanciers generally, especially beginners, in Canary and Mule Breeding. All diffusiveness of language has as far as possible been avoided, the different subjects have been classified under their respective headings, and the index made complete. It is therefore hoped that the book may be found to be one of ready reference in cases of difficulty and doubt.
The suggestions given are not opinions based on theories, but are the result of practical experience extending over many years—experience, too, not only of myself, but of some of the best fanciers in England whom I have had the pleasure of knowing, whose bird-rooms have always been open to me, and whose opinions on all questions relating to breeding and rearing have been freely given.
There is not any subject in Natural History that so readily leads the human mind to admire the wisdom and the omnipotence of the Great Creator as the study of birds. Some can ascend almost to the gates of heaven, as the Lark; others can at will float on and combat the fury of the mighty ocean, as the Seagull and the little Mother Carey’s Chickens; and all are more or less at home on dry land—combined powers not given to any other living creatures. Birds not only delight us with their charming song, but are the most