The Petpak Products Company

Canary Capital—Keep ‘Em Peeping

Milwaukee, WI–The chirp of hundreds of canaries would probably drive the average person into the street holding his ears, but to the employees of The Petpak Products Company, it is sweet music. For the more the chirps, the more business, and the more of the latter, the more $$. It’s like a musical circle.

The firm has on hand enough seed for two years. It’s a good thing, too, for the seed comes (or used to come) from such places as Argentina, Morocco, Turkey, Holland, India, China, and Manchuria. M.G. West’s president says the policy of Petpak is to “keep ’em peeping.”

Here, an employee who has the enormous job of fixing baths and replenishing food supply for a thousand birds a day, fills and replaces food containers.

Photo originally published July 4, 1942