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that his voice shall be of a certain quality. This 

 might be called "dealing in futures." These busi- 

 ness methods indicate what a demand there is for 

 first-grade song-canaries, and that such can surely be 

 obtained if you buy at the right place. There are 

 many here in America who have kept canaries for 

 years, and think they have good birds, who have as 

 yet never heard a first-grade song canary. Many 

 owners actually boast of their fine singers which they 

 assure me " can be heard three or four blocks away." 

 Spare us, good Lord ! 



THE PROPER SEEDS for the Harz canary is a mix- 

 ture of fully one half German summer rape seed, and 

 the rest Sicily canary seed. The German rape is the 

 smallest rape seed and of reddish brown color. This 

 is a sweet, nutritious seed, and if any German-bred 

 canary was to be given only one kind of seed the 

 rape not canary would be the one kind. These 

 seeds should be purchased in an establishment where 

 birds well-cared-for birds are sold. Millet seed 

 should not be given to these canaries. It injures the 

 song. 



THE ST. ANDREASBERG CANARY, bred in the vicinity 

 of St. Andreasberg, in the Harz Mountains, Ger- 

 many, is a grade whose song has a greater variety of 

 notes than the regular Harz breed, and the music is 

 softer and given more freely. Much more care is 

 given to the breeding and voice culture of a small 

 number of birds, so the variety of notes is greater, 

 the song has wider range, and often with a well- 

 trained bird continues through the moulting season. 



