WANTED : A RECIPE.
A good many years ago a German naturalist, who kept a bird sanctuary, published a pamphlet or small book in which he gave a recipe for a bird food or dish. The special quality of it was that it could be smeared on the bolighs of trees and would abide there till it was totally consumed by the birds that gathered to their savoury twigs. The dish was in effect a starchy plum pudding. A number of country people have asked me whether the pamphlet is in being or whether the recipe can be procured. I have experimented with this manner of feeding birds and found it satisfactory ;_ but am not in possession of the German's exact recipe. Is the pamphlet still in print ? In any case it would be worth the while of anyone who enjoys encouraging birds in the garden to experi- ment with a composite food that possessed adhesive qualities.
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