Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — Sparrow’s Choice of Colors. [ARTICLE]

Sparrow’s Choice of Colors.

It has recently been discovered that sparrows have a particular dislike to certain colors, such as purple and blue. A correspondent in Nature states that some caged sparrows that he had would not touch their food if he put strips of blue paper upon it; that they manifested a discourteous dislike to ladies who came into the room wearing blue dresses, and that several of them were cured of the vice of pecking at a .•ertain part of the wall they had access io by plastering a piece of blue paper jver It. As sparrows are gralu-con-niming birds, here is a suggestion for farmers.