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Food for Mocking-Birds

Mix together 2 parts corn-meal, 2 parts pea-meal, and 1 part moss-meal; add a little melted lard, but not sufficient to make the mixture too greasy, and sweeten with molasses. Fry in a frying-pan for 1/2 hour, stirring constantly, and taking care not to let it burn; this makes it keep well. Put it in a covered jar. The moss-meal is prepared by drying and grinding the imported German moss-seed.

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