The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-03
CANARY -BIRD CULTURE.

Milwaukee supplies the United States with the bulk of the Hartz Mountain canaries, and there is no great crime in the deception, for the Milwaukee bird is really an improvement on the imported article, having just as fine voice and being much harder. Ex- perence has shown that the imported singer loses the power of transmitting his voice to the young after passing through an American water. This is the case also, it is said, with the Ty- rolean singers who come to this count ry, their voices losing the peculiar AL pine yodling quality, when they have been here a year. The native canary is harder than the imported ones, and with proper training is every bit as good singer
 Before they are mated the hen birds are kept in separate cages in the music room, carefully fed and made to listen to the music of the singers and the machines used in training their voices, In this way the hen is enabled to trans init the best musical quality to its offsprings. The music-room is a large one with a south exposure, and is kept with the same scrupulous neatness as the breeding-rooIn. In the corner of this room is the bird organ, and with it the little birds are given their vocal training. When the machine is started the notes emitted are wonderfully like the song of the untutored canary. These notes are known to bird-trainers 1Nxy hA Nfn;f l,yo Ivy l,A whistle strikes on to 8 different line. It is an improvement over the pfeiffen, and is called the klingel, and a still higher step hohl klingel. Lastly comes what Is called hohl rollen, and bird whose voice has been developed up to that point is worth $50 in the market any day.
 There are innumerable small cages,
 made of wow and wire in this room and also two or three large cages in which number of the birds are
 placed together. Near the bird organ is what appears to be an ordinary cup
 board. The two front doors have an ornamental opening cut in them, quite similar to the openings in the body of a violin, the front covers serving as affair is really built on the principle of a vvioln, the front covers serving as sounding boards. When the birds are having their voices trained they are placed in this dark cupboard and also in some smaller ones, constructed so as to just take in one of the little wooden cages each. Kept thus in the dark they have nothing to distract their attention from the notes of the bird organ, and so long hours are spent by the little pupils in piping up their little voices
 to the mechanical teacher. When theil education has been completed they arf l shipped in the little cages to the New 1 York, Cincinnati, and Chicago mark cts.
 i Purchasers suppose that when they 1 buy a bird in one of these little cages it is guarantee that they have been l imported. Not so, however. The cages are made in Milwaukee, even to the l little earthenware drinking-jug that is | fastened within. And just here 2
 word of advice to buyers, of canaries
 The male birds are of course the sing
 CTS, and 1t is important to be able tC tell the male from the female. The female has a white shade or shimmel
 across the feathers on the top of the | head The eye of the female, also | is surrounded by little white rim oi | flesh, easily detected by the fancier.-
 Milwaukee Sentinel.