102 BIGGIE POUI/TRY BOOK. 



If located near neighbors who also have flocks, 

 the young poults should be marked with marking 

 punches in the web of the foot. If the neighbors 

 will agree to have different marks it will be an easy 

 matter, if the birds get together, for each one to pick 

 out his own. 



In the fall when the harvest fields are gleaned, 

 the grasshopper crop gathered in and insects 

 become scarce, the birds are well-grown and lusty. 

 The corn fields are now their favorite haunts and they 

 are inclined to linger longer around 

 the farm yard, and are eager for 

 anything in the way of eatables their 

 owner has to offer. 



Thanksgiving comes along about 

 this time and the first installment of 

 the flock should be prepared for 

 market and one of the best of the 

 lot reserved for the farmer's own 

 table. The illustration represents 

 one of the flock the day after Thanks- 

 giving. He is laughing all over his 

 face now ; perhaps Christmas day he 

 \.will wear a different expression. 



GUINEA-FOWLS. 



The Guinea is closely related to the turkey and 

 was originally brought from Guinea, on the West 

 African coast, where it is still found in a wild state. 



Their peculiar, cry when alarmed will scare hawks 

 and crows in the day-time. At night they are light 

 sleepers and when aroused by thieves or other marau- 



