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Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12140, 15 January 1908, Page 2

Norway is the land of afforestation No one is allowed to cut down a tree without planting three. Norwich, wbiab is still the centre of tbe eauary. breeding industty, has nf late received an abnormal number of orders from abroad (says a London paper). A single dealer has received orders in the last few months from Barbndoes, Cairo, Ueylon, Aden, and every European country. Mr . Rudd, the pioneer of the canary fancy in Norwich, sends off at the busiest times a thousand birds a week. Picked birds, hens as well as cocks, commonly fetoh £10, and there is a record of a J670 bid. Almost every small shoemaker in Norwich is v breeder, and is now selling off his superfluous stock. A poor mechanic in the smallest bouse may. make £10 to £20 a yea p by. his birds, and if be can breed ; a. dark-crested bird with the centre of tbe orest over tbe beak It wiU,be worth £20, dj^y -^