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l place, and fanciers would occasloh- but now that it has come into light,
(By Armstead Carter)
The Norwich Crested canary th a t' a |ly try and set the best of the there is some hopes of getting It
was Illustrated last week, shows judge by gluing them In position, cured, otherwise it will mean the
what can be accomplised in bird ' When I was judging if I was a little end of the Norwich plainhead as a
: suspicious, I would remove the birds fancy.
breeding with loving patience.
Most breeders of exhibition birds' form tbe caBe for » clo8er « a"“ "a- , Any of my readers that are keep-
are entitled to Job as a second name i tion’ and lf there was any fakinK’ ! ing canaries could help these birds
as it is only by patient effort th a t' would immediately disqualify the jn better health If they would, plant
| a little feed for them. I am trying
the wonderful ¿esulta are obtained i bird.
When one looks at the Roller a n d 1 Good crested birds can now be out panlsh canary seed, sweet rape
the Norwich crest, and then thinks bought for around »25 per pair. I seed, hemp and millet, to find its
commercial possibilities.
that they both originated from a A crested and a crested bret
bird that was in type and size thej ways paired together, very
All the seed we use for our pets
A crested I |g imported. We hear a lot of farm
same as the Roller, we realize w h a t: are two crests paired
a wonderful thing has been accom-1 bred means a bird from a nest f relief. I wonder if it would not be
plished by careful breed ing. In its | crests that has long head feathers. a little relief if we grew our own
way it is just as wonderful as the but they do not form a crest.
canary seed. I believe this district
radio and many other modern mira
The breeder of crests Is hard to is peculiarly adapted for It. Any
please with any other breed, but per one that wishes to try out a small
cles.
The birds in the Illustrations are sonally I never admired them except i patch can get the seed from me as 1
exact life size. The crest of .the as a wonderful feat of breeding. A have Imported a quantity of the fin-
Norwich covers both eyes and bill. good deal of double buffing has been ¡eat panish seed. It has cost me 20
At a bird show today, all that counts done <o produce heavy feather, with cents a pound. Anyone wishing to
in this heed is crest, and some the consequence that outside of the plant a small acreage for experiment
wonderful crests have been produc crest, they have little to recommend can have it for the same price.
them. I prefer the high ^olored
An average of over 1500 birds s
ed.
being
Imported Into the
The Norwich Crested canary used t ,’ ht and tr,m brcedi ln Preference day are
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to be called the k in - of the fancy.1U a bird wlth untidy p,umaR* Such ¡United States and these with the
end If the prices they sold for when j a one is the Norwich plainhead j ever increasing number that are be
this breed was ln Its hey day is any ¡sometimes called the bull dog of the ing bred here are going to aat a lot
of seed, and if hey can grow It sue
criterion. It was entitled to the j breed.
honor. Mackley Bros, of Norwich. I The Norwich plainhead Is every- cessfully on this project we shall
rngland, rold a crested bird for thing that his crested brother isn’t, have another -good way of making
»350. This caused a sensstion at with the exception that they are money that will beat artichokes all
the time but later »500 was reftisod : both big and chubby. A good Nor- hollow, as the market Is not confined
for the same bird.
Later Mr. ¿wteh has feathers likesiik, tight as to one buyer.
Cooledge of Derby sold to the late wax, every feather exactly in place
Bernard t=el a noted winner of the j and a blaze of rich colors. For the
NOTICE OF FINAL HEARING
breed for »750 and Included In the (showbench they are always color-
Notice Is hereby given that the
deal were two thers. one at »325 ¡fM . this makes them a brilliant
and one at »250, or $1325 for three orange color; this, and their perfect undersigned, as executor of the last
birds.
| contour, makes a bird that is a de- will snd testament of Mary E. Hots
ington, deceased, has filed his final
I call them ehow hogs that pay light to look at.
account and report in said estate with
the
prices and they caused the
In recent years a peculiar ekln the clerk of the county court of the
rem it that always hapnens when disease has appeared among them,
Rate of Oregon for Umatilla County;
■uch insane prices begin to rule, t h e '
seems to be something of the
breed loet popularity. It Is not the^ngture 0< an ingrowing feather that and that the Judge thereof has fixed
wealthy that make a breed of b rds,!cauBe3 a tumor. Just when a fanc- Saturday, the 25th day of May, 1929,
or anything else for that m atter,1 »er debating with himself Whether at the hour of ten o’clock A. M , as
that la primarily a hobby, a success. jhe w„ , b,ly hi, wife a new fur coat the time, and the county court room
’n the courthouse at Pendleton, Uma
It Is the patient piodder, and as aton or whether he will invest in a radio
as the birds (hat he reeds to pro with the money his birds are going tilla County, Oregon, as the place
duce the end that be is trying to at to win, a lump appears In the middle for the hearing of objections to euch
tain. reach ridlculo”« prices, he Just of the back perhaps, or up close to final account and the settlement
simply chanres his breed.
¡the wing butt, always ln some con- thereof.
FLOYD E. HOISINGTON,
There used to be quite a little .spicuous place, and shatters his good
f. king with this breed. .The stand- intentions. I "mps is the common As executor of the last will and testa
ment of Mary E. Hoisington, de
a d
P*rf*c»lon calls for a perfect ■ name Of the disease. I have heard it
ceased.
radiation of the erent. Many time« facetiously called the "hush. hush,
an otherwise perfect bird would have dlM-aoe” It Is only during the past Raley. Raley A Warner. Jobs F. Kil
kenny, Attorneys for Bxecutor.
one or two feathers in Its crest that »wo years that fanciers would ad-
Pendleton. Oregon.
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persist In «ticking up ouf of ¡mU they had n
ttielr
room,
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Merldn, Tiicntiin.—Life still has
charm and romance In the bind of
the Moyas. There Is much that has
not changed since the days «’hen Bish
op Lnuiln tried his hand nt converting
the Indians four centuries ago and
complained that the Indians Instead
had converted Geronimo Aguilar, the
first white man who lived among
them. Geronimo, the bishop suspect
ed. had become “us Idolatrous as
they.”
PIcturesqueneM In the modern
Moya village Is not destroyed, as It
so often Is In the Mexican villages on
the nmlnlnnd. by- dirt and misery, for
the Yucaiecun Indian Is a luckier
creature. He Is cleaner, healthier and
richer.
The town of Tlcul, a docen miles or
so from the famous ruined city of
Uxmnl. Is an Interesting example of
what has grown ouf of four centuries
of European civilization Implanted In
the heart of the greatest prehistoric
American civilization.
Native Blood Predominates.
Tlcul was a growing town when the
white man came, as the native will
tell the visitor. Today nenrly every
one who speaks Spanish speaks Mays,
too, while a large proportion of the
people speak the Indian iangpagn
only. There is no pure-white Mood
left and nutlve blood far predomi
nates.
In the native sections of the town
the Indians still live In their huts of
sticks, adobe roofed with fan-palm,
much as they did before the conquest.
The most notable change Is that they
use the hammock, Introduced from
Santo Domingo, Instead of the straw
rug or ”petate." which they used as
a bed before, and hammock making
lisa become a Vucntecan art.
Their huts are Io gardens, fenced
with limestone walls, rich with orange,
banana, palm, papaya and sapots
trees. Magenta-colored bougainvilleas
and llre-red “flamhoysns" add star
tling color to the picture.
Woman Carry Burdens.
Tlie handsome Indian or inestlza
women, with spotless white cotton
gowns, brilliantly embroidered at neck
and Item, walk like barefoot queen»
through the stony streets, swinging
lugs of woter nr naked babies on
their Itlpe. Statuesque women, wltb
white-enameled washbasins full of
beans or ground corn dough on their
heads, stalk out of the spotless mar
ket with Its crisp green piles of herbs
snd heaps of seeds and washed vege
tables.
Maya potters still ply their ancient
trade In Tlcul, and the town supplies
the surrounding region with earthen-
ware dishes, pitchers and pots. The
prehistoric disk or "kabal," which waa
on Hie verge of becoming a true pot
ter’s wheel. Is still need. The potter
«Its on the dirt Boor of bis hot, tarn-
ing the “knhal” wltb Ms toe end In
step while he gouges out the wet
mass of day as It Mowly turns and
changes Into graceful shapes under
his strong Angers. Tlcul yards are
full of pleasant ronnd shapes, drying
In the sun, waiting for baking day,
when they are bsrned In primitive
ovens, such as were used before Amer
lea waa discovered.
STATE NEWS
Removal of el: ctrlc and telephone
poles along the highway between
Marshfield rud CnquiUe from nearness
to the pavement Is believed to Indicate
an Improvement of the 17% miles by
addition of five feet on both sides of
the pavement.
Camp PJiy, summer playground of
Boy Scouts of eastern Oregon, will
open In Baker county June 30 tor three
10-day periods. A court of honor will
be held at the close of each period.
Practically all- the independent
I dairies of the Central Polnt-Medford
| district opi rating milk routes In the
i valley towrs are combining their in
terests by incorporating a creamery
company and establishing the main
plant on the Pacific highway ln the
Berrydale district Just north of Med
ford. A la.ge concrete building Is be
ing remodeled for the purpose,
approximately 125,000 one and two-
year-old seedlings were shipped to 275
persons ln Oregon from the Oregon
forest nursery during the spring dis
tribution of plan'ing stock, according
to a report Issued by F. A. Elliott,
state forester.
In what is kuown as the Eagle
Creek Heights district, near Estacada,
1000 walnut trees have been set eut
by orchardists this spring. The soil
seems adai ted to successful walnut
growing. A large number of orchards
are already thriving welL
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