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lot of delight from the wild birds
when following my daily avocotion.
Do you ever find yourself Interpret­
ing what the birds are saying when
they sing? I do quite often. There
Is a meadowlark I listen to every day.
He seems to be saying “I like potato
peeling very well.” Another says "I
can sing it, and sing It with glee,”
and some times as an afterthought,
he seems to say “Bet your life I
ran.” We used to have a bird up in
the -woods where I lived in Washing­
ton—I never did get to look at him—
so I don’t know yet what his avlcul-
tural name is, but he had not much
use for the eighteenth amendment
He used to make me thirsty with his
song of “Drlng free beer, drink free
bee-e-r. He uttered It Just as un-
mistakeably as the Bob White quail
calls Bob White. I always called him
the free beer bird. Then there is the
blue jay: he invariably comes and
hollers, “Thief, thief, thief,” as he
makes off with a potato in his bill
he says "I got it, I got It.”
The sadd martin came back last
Thursday, April 11. I noticed him
whilst irrigating. Unfortunately one
or two swallows don't make a sum­
mer, thought I have noticed three or
four make an early spring, especially
when it is moonshine they swallow­
ed. Next week a description of some
of the exhibition birds.
r—.
She—Wliy do you keep your bat
off, Mr Blown? ’'’be air Is cold.
He—Miss Maud, you know how pro­
foundly yoi.r presence affects me—
I’m trying to keep a cool head.
BIGGER. PETTI R CO-OPS
ADVOCATED FOR OREGON
A strong, sourdly organized coop­
erative marketing association is the
best thing for agriculture, but a
small, weak grovp founded mostly on
hope and en thus ism is a “snare and
a delusion.” fin-’s George O. Gatlin,
extension srecial at In cooperative
marketing e.t the state college after
a thorough S'lrvey of cooperative mar­
keting conditions in Oregon.
Mr. Gatlin found 135 organizations
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(BY ARMSTEAD CARTER)
(Illustrations by N. E. R Carter.)
In canary breeding there are two
ways we can go about mating; one
I might term promiscuous breeding
for want of a better term, and the
other, selective breeding.
For the first way all we need is a
lot of room. An empty room or an
outside avery which ever is handiest
In your case. As canaries are not
monogamous we can turn one cock
with three or four hens and in this
manner breed quite a large number
of birds in a season, with a minimum
of work and a maximum of pleasure,
hut we cannot control the matings.
If we want to breed for exhibition
or contest singing, it is a different
proposition; then we are compelled
to resort to the breeding cage, as this
Is the only method by which we can
control the matings.
When we mate our birds for exhi­
bition we study the shortcomings of
one and balance them with tirdr
that are strong on these points, tak­
ing care not to have the same weak­
ness on both sides.
It is always best to mate yellows
with buffs, so if we turn out a yel­
low cock in the aviary, buff hens
should be used to mate with him
There is a good reason for this. Buffs
when mated together increase length
of feathers, yellows on the other hand
decrease the feathers. Buff feathers
are usually coarse, yellow feathers
are soft and silky.
Pome people
will mate two yellows with the ob­
ject of producing all yellow birds, and
from this cause we find a lot of birds
with a tendency to baldness, as, if
yellows are paired together for several
generations, we invariably find the
birds begin to be deficient In feath
ora. To keep the feather uniform it
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is always best to pair a buff with a a little news item entitled “Tweet
yellow.
Tweet.” This article stated that a
Until the last few years, the main German liner had left Hamburg with
centers of cagebird breeding have a cargo of 38,080 canaries, I f men
been the British Isles and the German being in charge of them Does this
empire. The characteristics of the mean anythihg to you? In addition
two different nations have been re­ to these there are close to a million
jected in tbelr birds. London has birds being imported from Germany
always been a style center for cloth­ ( end Great Britain every yocr to sup
ing, therefore their birds have been ply the American demand for these
bred for their beauty of form and ( charming pets. Why are we not
plumage, with song a secondary con­ breeding our own?
Each one of
sideration. In Germany, on the these Imported birds must bear an
other hand, music has always been at import duty of 50 cents, together
leading feature, people still go there, , with more than an additional 50
to finish a musical education, and I cents for carrying charges. Add to
we find their birds have been bred this a dealer's profit and you have
for song exclusively, how they are nn overhead $2.50 for every bird.
dressed did not matter.
With this start can you not see a
In America until the last few comfortable profit in raising a few
years we have followed the Germans eanaries for a hobby? Then there
taste for birds rather than the Brit­ | is the joy and happiness In the occu­
ish. but now our younger generation pation. One cannot keep a bird with
Is geting more artistic in their out being better, both physically and
tastes and we are beginning to im­ mentally, from the contact.
port more of the British product,
What a world this woul be with­
I saw in the paper a few weeks ago out our feathered friends. I get a
F.B. Barker, Agt.
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A suggestion is made that thia la
a good time for the state to check
up on cooperative marketing. Inas­
much aa the proposed farm legisla­
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do'lng a cooperative busless in this
sta te. Most of th in. are engaged in
marketing, though some are purchas­
ing aasociations. Oregon, he found,
has some of the strongest co-ops in
the «»untry, organised along sound
lines and efficiently managed. Many
small, rather weitk groups, however,
reduce the averap.e
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