The Canary as a Feeder.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 37, 11 September 1902, Page 15

The Canary as a Feeder.

Thi oanary is always regarded as a small eater, just as the pig is notorious for its gluttony. People with small appetites are often twitted for not eating more than enough to feed a oanary, and this led a man who was a tiny eater to watch the yellow bird and report. He found that a oanary that weighed 247 grains ate just 32 times its own weight in a month ; that is, it ate rather more than its own weight on an average every day. Anyone who watches the little bird will notice that it is always eating. Now, says the investigator, a pig doesn't eat its own weight every day, glutton that it is. Henoe he thinks that the canary deserves to be olassed as a little Pig-