Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1914 — To Make a Bird Bathe. [ARTICLE]

To Make a Bird Bathe.

If for some reason or other known only to his stubborn little self your canary refuses to take a bath, try this remedy: Don’t give him any lettuce or other green for a week. Then put a small leaf of fresh, green lettuce in the bottom of his bath, half fill It with moderately cool water and put the bath in the cage. The bird’s desire fpr the lettuce will almost always cause him to go Into thq water before very long, and once in, he will find it so pleasant that ho wfibdoubtless take a bath regularly. If he still refuses to bathe, repeat the same treatment until he learns U like his ba.h as much as ho Ukoo Ist tank