| Show IMPORTING NO The Tho Technical T World Importations JmJ of ot cager ct birds Into the United States have Increased by b more than 25 5 per cent during the last four years oart Of Ot course courso a n great majority of such feathered creatures brought bro Into this country co try tire are canaries the breeding of ot which In iii Germany and null more par particularly tlc by 1 pennants peasants In the l linn Iara Mountains Is Iii a 1 most picturesque In Industry but about three hundred other species are aro fetched retched hither from various parts of tho the world and the methodi n etho t ta adopted a for catching tend and transporting them tire ore in many Instances In both curious and interesting In earlier curlier dave It was WI the custom much more commonly than thai now for sailors to collect strange birds In dis distant distant tant quarters qUart of the globe gloh and bring hiring them to America or l 11 where they disposed of ot them for small moll sums In III ready money mone Even Ecu at tt tho the present lre ent Limo tho the species Imparted from the time Orient are mostly Introduced In Inthis Inthis this way nay the tho traffic being conducted on ona ona a I considerable scale by time the th crews of Pacific with dealers in III Spa San Francisco But Dul so far tar ns as other birds aro are concerned the tho th business Is ts mOro more hl highly systematized Merchants In this line of ot trade employ agents of to secure supplies of or birds In their native haunts while maintaining such relations na with correspondents at It tt European centres entres as nil enable them to draw upon those sources for whatever additional feathered 1 stock maybe may he required |
