The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-12-11

dren wouldn't tolerate it. 1 expect to
get good many orders for monkeys.
They range in price from five dollars up
to $500. though 1 have one at Coney
Island that is going to astonish people
soon, and l wouldn't take 81, 500 for
it.n
"Besides the travelling shows you
have the geological gardens to supply,
I suppose"
In Europe, yes, where my brother
Is, but we are not much troubled with
geological gardens in this country. 1
think it will come, but the interest is
Just now developing. At the gardens
in Berlin, where the admission price is
twenty-five cents, they have 80, 900 vis-
itors in single day, and the average
attendance is very large. Here, if a
geological garden were opened, the
people would overrun it for a week,
and nobody would go thereafter. Be-
sides in the cities of Europe, the ground
is given for geological gardens free of
rent, which is the only arrangement
under which one of these great places
could support itself.
"And what do you deal in when wild
animals are dullP''
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signify what seemed from their fiutter
and their noise q million canaries. Each
bird was confined separately in q little
wicker cage in the form of a cube,
measuring about six inches in all ways.
These lined all the walls of the large
shop, rising in tiers to the ceiling, and
from the floor.
"The canary bird is my staple. From
August until May these little creatures
come to me at the rate of 1000 every
week. When came to this country, in
1S47, there was no trade in canary
birds, Just as there was no trade in
flowers. You could not buy a canary's
cage, nor seed to feed him with, in this
city. These things had to be sent for
to Europe. The taste for birds and
flowers had to be inculcated, and it has
been since that time.
They call them canary birds, but
they German birds. The native
does not sing. 1t was when the canary
was crossed with the linnet, and the
lark, and the other song birds of Eu-
rope, that the little musician, which we
know as the canary, came to exist.
These birds are all bred in Germany.
The inhabitants of the Harz Mountains
supply the civilized world. There is
not a cottage in all the region about
Andreasberg and the Brocken that is
not full of them. Some of the peasants
raise as many as 800 in a year, but the
average is perhaps twenty to house.
As much as $500, 900 goes to the in
habitants of the Harz Mountains for
their canary birds every year. They
have bred them for generations, and
fairs are held and prizes are offered to
stimulate the breeders.
'These wicker cages, the fancier
continued, holding up one slender and
simply constructed of soft white wood.
" are made by the peasants who breed
the birds. The canary that comes to
America is confined to his cage for q
space of about three weeks. send an
order for several thousand birds to my
brother in Germany. He directs a
number of agents to collect in the Harz
enough birds to fill the order. The
peasant has 20 general place of sale.
The agents 60 from cottage to cottage,
buying in one 500 birds, and in another
100, and so on. Instructions are given
to send these birds to the port of ship
ment, to be there on Friday. On Satur-
day the ship sails. Men go with the
birds to feed them and care for them.
One man can take care of 1880 birds,
and 1 generally have two men going
each way in the North German ships
every week"
Here the dealer requested one of his
men to show how the birds are fed. The
man lifted in his left hand six or eight
little cages that were fastened together
in line, and with a kind of shovel in
his right scooped up q quantity of seed
from q bucket at his side, and with u
single sweep scattered the same through
the bars and into little cups arranged
inside. With like skill and celebrity
water was poured into the cages from
can such as is used in the filling of
lamps.
"You see how one man can take care
of 1 $50 birds. With two sweeps of his
hand he can feed and water eight birds,
and you only have to multiply. The
little fellows have to be as tenderly
cared for as children. They are two
weeks coming from the Harz Mount
aims to New York, and they are never
more than two weeks generally not one
week in the shop, so that their period
of close confinement is not very long.
They can not be kept in such quarters,
and whenever by any accident 1 see
that am likely to be left with many on
hand, send them out and at once sell
them by auction."-N. p. San.