Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-04-21 | Page 9 | Birds and Fowls Colored

HI BIRDS AND INI IJ FOWLS COLORED Piteous Canaries l Parrots and alid R cn Chickens Cl arc mo n t tow l Nowadays ow lap Post lost Rather Saturday Evening novel ol is the tho nolion n llon of or coloring birds artificially b by feeding ceding them with aniline ani ani- aniline line IIno dyes des Thus The thing is actually being done nowadays nowa nys with pigeons canaries parrots panels and auth oven 0 chickens For this tho the II dyes es are me cither either mixed Inthe Inthe in inthe the dough of or ordinary bread before baking or 01 else disguised 1 in cotta cottage o cheese elthier elther either being a readily assimilated assimilated as as- form of food foo 1 Baking BaIting takes awa away the bitter taste of or such products and tile the crumbs are aro freely eaten caten S I In this wa way by the uso use of methyl methyl- I eosin fawn colored pigeons may bo be and the color colo colors to a a. bright red 1 an I Is s guaranteed fast Similarly Similar blue blues I is s obtained h by feeding tho the birds binds with I In the latter latler case tho thu lye dye Is offered to tho he young oung squabs In itt bread That colors acquired by h feeding feeding- however are aro not necessarily fast Is la shown hown b by what whal happens In a a. state of ot nature to the lie tropical birds known as is or 01 banana eaters aters On their heir violet dark-violet wing feathers cathers are uro patches of or bright blight crimson which soak out ut In vutter so that In the lie rain rainy seaon season sea- sea Still son on these patches hatches become pale palo pink or dirt lirty gla gray it is js copper derived d from bananas ananas that produces tho thio tint The rc red 1 o ot of the Iho feathers when burned give I e a green flame IncH IncH- eating the presence of or copper coppet Tho The Thor r red ed ll coloring matter casH easily IIi dissolves es In Iii dilute ammonia and amid chemical analyN sl sis N shows it to contain 7 per pr cent of or ure metallic copper