Show BOARD BILL of CANARY j I W t A f J 1 1 q I J Jj 1 0 00 O 00 EAR r rl J f r w pop r 1 hill HI 0 of oft TH the t Ii h s A I r canary bird last lust year ear Mr amounted to la 0 And that take c account of or o ohis his hib lodging She Sho ate itc no 10 more mo a n bud bird budIt It is is n a quotation of course h not from front k V ti any my novel more marc recent than A D I 1805 1895 when delicate heroines Were ii j 1 fashion and practical ornithology was stood tood wily only by poultry fat mere She Sho eats cots ca ts like liko a D bird would be true now of the strapping pinS hearty heroine and would con convey conley vey ley practical idea of tho the birds appetite The modern heroine weighs wei hs well up to t his pounds und and Dud t she ho could keep it up on the simple Hie life diet at a u minimum cost of 2 3 a n week The Ihl canary weighs barely on au ounce or so but his still plainer food amounts to Ike 2 u year car carSo So Co far as ns t delicate dieting goes the tho human humn heroine as proved by b statistics ii is is distinctly a n nt t t bird t but what chat hE five bird is SI i md find especially the ills canary bird bi d becomes became a t l more gf gro sly r l Story N n Mi consul In Gern m J I IA A NHIP the earth nth A In hl hio H for Cor hard facts after t the r Pf of o lh the I noW o anti and American lit m MP tho th e innocent canary thIs thia In him to tho lost if of grit in to 11 his It tiny 1111 crow Ho Ito th ihU there Hiero pro no 10 tower than tt n GOgO 5 jn w lr ln away A U In St top Mach each eating twenty A a p a of or 6 11 ht t a I i year ejr at nt 6 a i for far or the limo he sv eoll Ills His In the tho lh Department of at n nl IA jI informed the 11 tn at lame laige Now Kow In the tho country ct I t largo thore aro tro certain c r mall mcp m n who mho those birds 1 11 11 by hy tho the thousand 3 n oH them o all In 11 lots aa as Email no an Individual II I r non TI wc were ero e willing to lot let lo tho I main OR Oll ORrA urn urD rA a as 11 to lo lice iho total number of birds but arc profoundly convinced that the time c of oC keeping them Is U cr ery much muth higher IMPORTED BY THOUSANDS THOU ANDS In Philadelphia there Is 11 one ono Importer who ho o brought In birds last year leor with hIt his business still Increasing In limo iho local market ho of ot of Pt thorn the remaining SO wore were distributed dl throughout the thin United Status States I um liable bald tula this dealer to have hivo from to birds in stock BlOC nt at t u LJ time huge and the tho calculation of ot a n wholesaler working on Oil such auch an all onor scale calc is Ie that It Il costs co him 1 cent cont u a l rook for Cor a birds birdo food rood But that is Ie something very orY litter differ different cut cat from tho the coat borne borno by b the tho people who rho keep canaries Q as pets pet rho The birdseed I sold in ono packages e retails at 10 cents contu a 11 pound and while whilo a bird will not flat eat cat pounds pound in III a year oven In iu the most mOlt waste fu Cui It win Ui on en mho lio s steen saws 9 1 teen loan pounds pound 11 11 1115 the th direct retail cost of or the sees seed eq fl n a year foal Instead of USO 1 50 But Batt lt tho the seed is not all Sonio onto tiro 10 or n six s of tt bird raul at G C cents a n 1 package l s 1 are aro nr l an nil I ln In dispensable lo Item Horn as ap IP to at Jl least oa t ono opo O cutt bono coats coMs I S cents Those Thoro two adjuncts to lo the tho dietary although they afford no are aro as essential for Cor the ho bird its I knives forks nn l spoons aro Iro for tar human beings bell s f They Thoy brim tho mho cult coat cos up gp p to n tI full ull p 2 Not 1101 a t wholly no negligible this of ot tho lie 8 little hoard bill lUl sn ct l pt t considerably On f I less Ipa thin than the tho th total ot 1 lIf f his ils fer his hie lodging IO must bo be Qc with That lodging the minor factor of o the lie of oC other feathered f pots rI tt like lIko parrots parrot pa rolp keeps the of o Ave flo pf of bird lr pales pages pa ts and orlu In n comfort 1090 lOpO people e port aI t o s tl 1 rna to o Is that th ihs tho th lire life Pf of I a caga c So I Is a that of or two pd nd successive bird Ird tenant Q flint It U ma may endure en ur from ono one to ton tan t years with an of t four tour years ears and at Qt an average cost COlt of ot ofa 52 u a cage ma stay maJ amount annuallY to from rom CO o 0 to GO DO cent centt Adding mho tho Incidentals Incidental of ot breakage breal a c of ot cage cabo fur and small but necessary repairs and ond disregarding disregarding garding wholly the Item of ot attendance which IP Is usually usually ally a Q labor ar of ot love tho maintenance of ot tho lie average canary Is 15 cheap to its owner at III IO a n yeara a total of oC U annually for tho estimated birds In time tho United States But t a a i million dollars and moro more Is 10 to be added for tor the net not coat C Dt of ot nl of ot stock rood birds cot cool cooling t tins ins ing In from tro l 52 00 GO to 5 apiece and country countr now Importing at III lout lost 23 v per p r cent coot of O the birds birda bred In the Harts hart mountain district dl in every corr 3 year oar OB oarIn In Germany o a roan really ono roller sells ella re llo for 21 or 50 EO In the limo United States Stales tiO 50 for to CO a 1 canary equal to a 4 l whole tra would till fill v with Intolerable the tho soul of ot a 11 millionaire from whom as aJ much for fear a 0 bird and somo bottles would elicit merely rn rob a grunt STunt of or approval at mho tho nine of oC his Ids meal check 41 I j w y w Ae lr T a Tr rf N Y r f i fj J Ji J 9 J o J i i tt ti t Y 7 r i 4 Ji NJ r Z |