EMPHASIZING AN IMPORTANT DEPARTMENT 



We have brought forward, as an opening department, for this month only The Educa- 

 tional Humane Society, because its work is important. We want you not to overlook but 

 to cooperate. We thoroughly believe in humane-ness founded on acquaintance, association, 

 intelligence and love — not on law. 



THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



EDUCATION AND RECREATION 



VOL III 



JUNE, 1910 



No. 2 



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A Chapter of the Agassiz Association. (Incorporated 1892 and 1910.) The Law of Love, Not the Love of Law." 



The Guide to Cavy Rearing 



BY C. H. ELLARD, SECRETARY THE AMERICAN FUR FANCIERS' ASSOCIATION 



LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK 



OW to rear cavies or, as they lath or other soft wood strips to fit 

 are more commonly known this opening. Nail this firmly together 

 under their pseudonym, and cover with wire cloth of about 

 "Guinea pigs," is the ques- quarter inch mesh. The half inch 

 tion your editor asks me to mesh will do but the finer wire ex- 

 answer. The entire sub- eludes the mice and so save on grain 

 ject may be divided into and coats if you keep Peruvians. 



If your door fits snugly your hinges 

 will go on easily and a hook and eye 

 will serve to keep it fastened. Cavies will 

 get along very well in a space twenty- 

 four by fifteen by fifteen inches though 



three important sections, 

 viz : housing and care, feeding, and the 

 selection of stock. 



HOUSING AND CARE. 



As to the first, it is always best to 

 have "your cage before you get your one a trifle higher and deeper is more 

 bird;" so provide a house for your desirable, and in this space a pair 

 "piggies" first. The most easily made may be kept. These boxes may be 

 are those constructed from a dry goods' placed one on top of the other in tiers 

 box such as is usually about twenty- as may be convenient. For the hot- 

 four by eighteen by fourteen inches torn of each one a gas stove tray of 

 or thereabouts. Arrange it so the open galvanized iron will be found a great 

 space is placed so as to give the most convenience in clearing and caring for 

 floor, room, and make a door of shingle them. These trays come in such a 



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