I02 BIGGLE POULTRY 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 wall 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, i 

 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 wa}- 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- 



I ^ giving. He is laughing all over his 



,| a face now ; perhaps Christmas day he 



:xSp^^^ will wear a different expression. 



GUINEA -FOWIvS. 



The Guinea is closely related to the tvirkey 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- 



