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February  17,  1923 
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OILPULL 
"The  Cheapest  Farm  Power " 
These  qualities  of  OILPULL  service  are  due  to  the  high  prin¬ 
ciples  of  manufacture  which  this  company  has  followed  and 
will  always  follow.  Also  to  such  revolutionary  developments  as 
Triple  HeatControl  which  makes  possible:  1 — Lowest  Fuel  Cost, 
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told  you  that  they  made  possible  the  true  type  of  tractor  econ¬ 
omy.  Now  we  have  thousands  of  letters  proving  it — from  farmers. 
Read  Some  of  These  Letters 
We  will  send  you  letters  from  your  own  district  wherever  you 
live.  Read  them.  Get  the  farmer’s  viewpoint  of  the  OILPULL 
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Serviced  Through  33  Branch  Offices  and  Warehouses 
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With  Finger  Fertilizer  Feed 
Price t  f.  o.  b.  Phelps,  N.  Y. 
» .Hoe  Drill . $105.00 
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What  Killed  the  Canary? 
I  took  my  canary’s  cage  <)o-.vd  to  tidy 
it,  change  paper,  etc.  The  bird  6cemed 
frightened  and  made  a  queer  little  crying 
sound.  I  had  heard  it  once  or  twice  be¬ 
fore  when  I  moved  the  cage  to  the  table. 
Later  he  got  a  weakness,  a  pain,  I  think, 
as  he  cried  and  soon  fell  to  the  bottom 
of  the  cage.  Several  times  it  occurred  iu 
the  forenoon.  He  got  back  to  the  perch 
each  time  afterwards.  In  the  afternoon 
he  was  not  able  to  get  up,  and  did  not 
eat.  I  gave  him  brandy  and  milk.  Next 
day  I  found  he  was  torn  from  the  neck 
down  to  the  back.  I  took  two  stitches  in 
the  tear,  as  the  joint  of  the  wing  at  the 
shoulder  came  out.  It.  did  not  bleed,  as  , 
only  the  skin  was  broken.  He  died  the 
second  night.  I  said  he  had  hiccough,  as 
he  was  convulsed  at  each  breath  the  first 
night.  I  did  not  expect  him  to  live 
through  one  night.  Then  the  next  day 
I  found  the  tear  and  knew  he  would  not 
recover.  e.  j.  a.. 
Rhode  Island. 
Anything  about  birds  interests  me,  and 
this  question  is  a  puzzler.  Poor  little 
bird !  Honestly,  any  answer  one  can  give 
must  be  largely  a  matter  of  guessing.  Let 
me  quote  •some  experts  on  diseases  of 
canaries : 
Says  the  man  who  wrote  the  Govern¬ 
ment  bulletin :  “Most  troubles  may  be 
traced  to  some  some  untoward  circum¬ 
stance  in  handling  them  (canaries). 
Their  diseases  are  very  little  understood 
and  correct  diagnosis  is  difficult.” 
A  man  of  many  years’  experience  'who 
prescribes  for  birds  by  mail  wants  to 
know  the  following  things  before  he  will 
prescribe  for  a  lire  bird  :  Kind  and  age 
of  bird  ;  kind  of  seed  and  food ;  send  sam¬ 
ple  of  food  and  describe  daily  care;  take 
bird  in  hand  and  see  if  breast  is  full  or 
bony;  describe  droppings  and  send  sample 
in  waxed  paper.  State  how  long  sick  and 
describe  .all  visible  symptoms  of  disease. 
Now  for  the  best  guess  that  I  dare 
hazard.  The  little  crying  sound  men¬ 
tioned  is  common.  Even  such  a  pet  as 
Sunny  Jim  will  make  it  if  he  happens  to 
want  to  play  with  his  reflection  in  the 
tiny  mirror  wired  to  his  cage,  or  with  a 
feather  or  bit  of  string,  instead  of  attend¬ 
ing  to  his  hath  when  I  take  the  cage  down 
to  clean  it.  ITo  wants  to  do  things  when 
he  feels  like  it.  so  protests  if  his  time  is 
not,  mine.  Yet  E.  J.  A.’s  bird  might  have 
felt  ill  or  been  in  pain,  and  so  protested 
against  being  moved  or  disturbed. 
Birds  fed  too  rich  food  sometimes  have 
apoplexy.  The  fit  comes  on  suddenly 
while  they  may  be  eating,  sleeping  or 
singing,  and  they  drop  from  the  perch. 
Such  attacks  are  often  fatal  almost  at 
once. 
There  are  two  other  diseases  that,  might 
account  for  falling  from  the  perch  in  this 
way.  One  is  vertigo  or  “twirling,”  which 
is  more  properly  a  habit.  Birds  twist 
their  heads  so  far  around  as  to  lose  their 
balance  and  fall  from  the  perches.  The 
strange  thing  about  this  is  that  it  occurs 
most  frequently  in  birds  kept  in  round 
cages. 
Canary  birds  are  subject  to  epileptic 
fits,  as  some  unlucky  persons  are.  An 
epileptic  fit  might  come  on  at  any  time ; 
possibly  the  approach  might  announce 
itself  by  a  bad  feeling  that  would  bring 
a  cry  from  the  tiny  sufferer.  Very  likely 
the  bird  would  fall  from  the  perch.  Yet, 
when  the  seizure  was  over,  he  might  be 
able  to  get  back.  Also  by  afternoon  he 
might  be  too  used  up  to  move  or  be 
hungry. 
As  to  the  “being  convulsed  at  each 
breath  the  first  night,”  if  the  bird  had 
such  a  gash  down  its  back,  each  breath 
must  have  been  very  painful.  After  the 
gash  was  sewed  up,  did  he  seem  to  breathe 
any  easier? 
Were  there  any  cats  or  rats  or  any¬ 
thing  that  could  get  at  him  as  he  hung 
in  his  cage?  Our  neighbor’s  cat  slipped 
in  once  when  the  back  door  unlatched 
itself,  leaped  to  the  window-sill  and 
jumped  for  Jimmie’s  cage,  caught  the 
cage  edge  with  its  claws,  but  slipped  aud 
fell  to  the  floor,  and  I  got  there  iu  time 
to  drive  the  cat  out  before  it  tried  again. 
A  canary  belonging  to  a  uurse  in  a  cer¬ 
tain  home  for  incurables  huug  in  front  of 
a  window  above  a  sewing  machine.  A 
rat  jumped  from  the  sewing  machine  to 
the  cage  during  the  night,  killed  the  bird 
and  ate  it.  In  the  morning  the  ward 
grieved  over  a  tiny  bunch  of  feathers,  all 
that  was  left  of  their  pet. 
Possibly  the  bird  might  have  fallen 
from  its  high  perch  against  some  sharp 
edge  in  its  cage  and  so  cut  such  a  gash. 
This  is  only  a  possibility,  because  I  do 
not  know  the  bind  of  cage.  Since  the  bird 
was  alone  in  the  cage,  no  other  bird  could 
have  injured  him.  Perhaps  this  is  enough 
guessing  on  my  part.  Maybe  some  other 
R.  N.-Y.  readers  will  like  to  try  their  skill 
at  solving  this  puzzle.  edxa  s.  kxapp. 
The  Pleasures  of  Wild  Land 
I  have  read  replies  to  J.  B.  W.  and 
suggestions  as  to  the  amount  of  land  he 
should  buy.  I  have  his  longing,  but  not 
his  finances,  and  would  suggest  that  he 
include  in  his  purchase  a  good-sized,  hilly 
aud  brookv  pasture  and  wood  lot.  He 
will  want  to  wander  there  when  not  busy — 
say  on  Sunday — and  watch  the  birds  and 
animals,  and*  try  cutting  wood  at  odd 
times,  and  do  a  thousand  and  one  other 
things  he  cannot  do  on  his  neighbor’s 
woodland.  His  evidently  is  not  purely  a 
business  proposition,  and  he  will  miss  a 
lot  of  fun  if  he  has  no  wild  land. 
Massachusetts.  E.  w.  capen,  m.  D. 
It  kills  plant  lice 
—and  it  costs  less  than  two 
cents  a  gallon  to  spray  with 
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Room  152  Capital  Bldg.,  Richmond,  Va 
