Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1910 — ROOSTERS CROW ON DEMAND. [ARTICLE]

ROOSTERS CROW ON DEMAND.

Vaudeville F*erfeanmer Telle es Mia Meth?«U el Teaehlear Birds. Jean /Vermont, he of the burlesque circus, outlined the method of teach-' Ing a rooster to sing, the Spokane Statesman-Review says. The seeker after Information wahted to know how Mr. Clermont’s two roosters—one of which is a soprano and the other a barytone—had been trained to crow loud and long whenever they were told to. "It is not a secret," said Mr. Clermont, and then outlined the system. Thus: “In all my years of work with animals, this trick- with the roostess is one of the hardest I ever tried to teach. 1 have never succeeded in less than seven or eight months and sometimes it takes longer than that. To begin with, I bring the rooster into my dressing room and put him on the shelf in front of the mirror. “He looks into the face of what he thinks is another rooster. I take him away and put him back. There is the strange rooster again dnd my pupil challenges him with a crow, feeble at first, but soon loud and clear. This process is kept up indefinitely, until I can put a sheet of paper before the glass and leave the singing scholar facing the blank. But by this time he knows the other rooster is behind the paper and he crows. Then I put him on a pedestal, such as I use in my act, and after some weeks mere he will crow from the pedestaj when I show him a small mirror. From this stage he advances until when I hold up my hand and say ‘Crow,’ he crows as often and as loudly as I ask. But It takes patience, very much patience."