| Show n Six Hundred Canaries In Ogden Homes and Number Is h Ting Growing Each Month I Ic IcI I f ii SIron Strong sunlight and cold Old drafts Feeding r Is Important are arc harmful tiro o e days when nearly every house ue in la town ported sported a 8 gilted cage containing cage containing acanary a acanary canary And canaries ware wore s so so numerous and popular that that some someone someone ne even even ven n w-ote ote a song Im Only Oly a Bird tr II a e Gilded Glided Cage Cage Cae or something that that W 11 history is Is about bout to repeat JIG Its If In In thIs that respect that Is Is as asto asto asto to the canaries not the song cong song t to bird lovers when V en ien the the novelty of of keeping r c tea lea wore w wore re oft off about 10 30 or 15 16 l d j ago the canarr cadar canary population dropped sharply OFFERS ESTI ESTIMATE UTE Today the canary population of Q O I l II 11 i leas has reached moro more than r 10 0 and alid growing monthly by Ay y from 1 1 to 60 It Is le estimated by those no w are Interested interested in bird Q During the Christmas holidays XI arly canaries went Into Ogden Og- Og Ogden Og Ogden den homes and tho the demand Is III wing This was largely b 1 u about by b- friends visiting n I homes ot oi bird owners who beup be- be beim up im interested and decided they must mUst have havo a canary canary of their own If anyone anone asked you the ques- ques question question ques question tion What Is the average a life of oC oCa ofa ofa a wary mar mary could you oU answer It It l e r writer couldn't either until h asked a bird fan fancier ler 1 Figures I arcs compiled from all parts ot of the country he said Bald show chow that ie le average canary callary lives 12 years The oldest canary known lived tor or 26 25 years yearn ears Birds past their are few but there are arB arem arem m n a between 15 and 20 years ears Mot it any person who takes proper care of a canary ho he said n ay his bird to be bB with tha hi family at least 10 or 12 U years ears RAISING BIRDS In addition to owning birds m many iny UlY persons have become Inter- Inter ted ed In raising them and a faIrly percentage have met suc- suc suc-c suc c is ts according to Leonard Tay- Tay Taylor Taylor Tay-lor Tay lor Ogden bird raiser ralser who has canaries that have won on first prizes at nearly every state lr it In the past few fe years A out persons In In Ogden b om Interested In bird raising lIb year car Mr Taylor said and a 1 dozen fit pf of them themE themE- s y with Ith It and early spring Including In ing such as Christmas nd rid V day bring the ther r II t market for tor singers t prices breeders say are paid during the breeding season ipe illy lIy for females But there Is a more or less steady demand aU an the year round Many r ng birds In their homes have ho v Irk d up quite a market using C hied ads to get In touch with buy rs re The market Is La now better than for tor or years a I breeder said Satur Satur- da day Saturday Thousands of them are por d every year from Europe o e American breeders are unable to the demand One homo home throughout In e a i I ry twelve I think through through- throughout out the tho United States has a can can- canary canary canary ary which means there ar are are ap p proximately approximately of ot them In Inthe inthe Inthe the country BREAKING BRE TIES TIIS It is a n pleasure to raise can can- arlt s and they are really not much trouble You Top Yop must be care care- care ful fw careful of their feeding Many people stuff stutt a bird with all al kinds of food and Ittie Ith then wonder some day why by It tie h down and dies Dirty cages w h Ib h rotting food are 1110 unhealthy Birds should not be placed I in ina Ina a drift draft or left In strong rays of th tb un The rho males of course are the sin TS ra If It you are unable to tr tl in to some of them to sing Bing well th tha a can be sold Bold for breeding It Is a pleasure to train tent carefully until they are good singers Raising canaries 11 Is la a profitable business and end I find It a 0 real plea plea- pleasure pleasure sure surG They are a lot of company I so so much that I hate to part with one when I I n sell sel him II |
