Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-02-09
HOW TO RAISE cANAR1Es

Dear Sisters: As Miss Themes has asked US
to tell about the different kinds Of birds we
ave seen lately. ! will try to tell o. these
that have been constant visitors to my home
the fair days Of the last montn- hed Dlros
have been fitting about like 1t was summer
time and there are swarms OF sparroWs that
gather in my kitchen yard for such things
AS they may find for 1000. Ny mouse anu
yard are fenced so that our domestic fowls
do not have access to them.
My sister, who lives in Waco, Tex. came
on visit year or more ago and Droqgnt
me a pair of canaries as a present Last
year I had birds Matched and raised nine.
Seven of them were singer and two hens. l
sold the singers for 81 apiece. They are OF
were really worth more, according to the way
birds sell in the markets. made the pair
a large cage, three feet each way, OF screen
wire netting. / used small sized quarter round
for the framing. l think they have ample
room at any time, and especially while
raising their young. l keep cutie fish bone
FASTENED to one side of the cage, supposedly
for them to whet their beaks on, but l think
they eat small bits of 1t when they do not have
plenty OF good sharp sand. Since keep them
well supplied with sand the bones do not
seem to diminish in size as they did before;
anyway, as / can get two for CENTS and
III will keep them until l learn more about the
goSd they may 81 tb,In tbst birds Will NOT sing
well If they are fed anything but the pre-
pared seeds sold in the market, but that Is
certainly q mistake, for / have fed mine on
most any kind that we have and / give them
mny kinds Of vegetable seeds, and they are
very fond Of them. 1 wash the larger kinds,
such as pumpkin and cashaw seeds, for they
could not hull them otherwise. / give mine a
hard boiled egg occasionally and keep 1t by
them all the time when there are babies to
feed ] cook their Irish SStatoes and scrape
lup their turnips. i give them any kind Of
canned fruits that open for my table, but just
Ia little at a time. They are very fond of
lcsbbage and mustard or lettuce and nothing
pleases them better than to give them red pep
lper. don't feed them any sugar or food
that has sugar In it, nor do feed them with
food that has salt or grease in IL. / do give
them any of breads that we have to eat our
selves. I have been told that when they once
get the habit OF eating grease they Will pluck
their own plumage out. / keep newspaper in
the cage and put in fresh water and clean paper
levery day. 1 keep two vessels for water, one
lboat-shaped for bathing for they do delight to
splash in water each morning. l put their
drinking water in a small deep mug 50 that
they cannot get into 1t to battle.
make the nest and sew lint cotton in IL
and hang 1t by small wires in the center OF
1.-THE cage.
1t takes two weeks for the eggs to hatch
The mother goes on the nest day OF two
before she lays the first tgg and stays on
all the time, only as she comes off or water
aud food. She lays one egg each consecutive
might until there are sometimes four and at
times five eggs. The male birds does not
sing much while the hen sets and, of course