Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-31
The Canary and Its Care

~URELY nothing else In the world
gives 90 much music and sunshine
- and Joy In payment for SO little
trouble as a canary. Select your canary
for his song. The German sort sing the
best Often an insignificant, dark. little
bird will have a song of beauty and a
big, golden bird will have only mo-
notonous trill.
Some of the hybrid birds have an even
more interesting song than do the pure
canaries The goldfinch canary has a
delightful song and it's manners. too, are
pleasing. 1t is marked with red and Is
pretty.
The only essentials to canary health
are clean surroundings. seed and water.
Without these requisites the canary sick
ems and dies.
once a week his cage should be scalded
and his water and seed dishes thoroughly
scalded and dried His bath should be
kept clean. and occasionally all his be-
longings should be summed.
20 make your canary q real joy, make
q pet of him. Let him fly at liberty
when you clean his cage. II you have
time. let him fly every morning. While
he is out of his cage. you can do much
to tame him. Stay in the room with him.
II by chance he falls. because his wings
are weak. set the top Of the cage over
him and leave him. He can then hop
TO a perch by himself. Later. when he
is tame you can help him. Be gentle
in your movements about his cage. He
will soon become used to you and In a
few weeks you can handle him. But If
YOU brighten him to begin with you will
, have trouble in tanning him.
So much for tanning him out Of the
cage. The real tanning process begins
: in the cage. Speak to him. chirp to him
or whistle to him always when you
Put your finger into the cage when you
give him greens Let him peck grains OF
sugar or seeds from your hand. He will
soon get 50 fond Of your companionship
THAT he will cry when you leave him and
eshtrp In recognition as soon as you enter
Zone little bird. a wild enough thing
when 1t was bought. was tanned by these
simple methods 50 that within tw1
months it would follow the members Of
1.-THE family about a rooyi flying about
ythem or perch.ng happily on their hands
Ut would peck at their fingers whenever
they put them In the cage. and II would
hop on their hands when they opened the
cage door.
Sometimes 1t would hop up their arms
following a finger of the other hand, to
the shoulder. 1t would jump from one
foreflnger to the other. held a couple OF
inches above. and SO "climb the stairs -
The little birds browning achievement,
was discovered by accident. One mem.
Der Of the family went into the room
where II was hung in the middle Of the
night and began to talk to It Promptly
walked suddenly from q downy sleep, the
little bird began to sing, ana II sans
away in the dark until 1t was alone
again.
There are some birds which will mo-
battle. The new bird batha-the uttl,
glass cages that hook on the side of tn,
cages over the open doors-will tempt al
most any bird. But II you have difiicult,
either with this sort Of bath or any other
put q little lettuce leaf in It.
The bird will go into the water for tn,
lettuce-he should be hungry for 1t, d
don't give him any for q few days befor,
you try this method OF coaxing him-ant
I once In. he will doubtless like the bath
1t Is the tub that frightens the birds
They all like to battle.
A daily bath Is not too much. Tn
birds IKE to play about In the wsteg ans