WHAT BRANCH OF THE BUSINESS? 
Squab Business Overdone. 
The business of producing pigeon squabs resembles the duck 
business in the sense that it has been reduced to a successful 
system. The production of squabs has grown until the de- 
mand is satisfied and the price has fallen to just that figure 
that will continue to bring in a sufficient number of squabs 
from the plants which are already established, or which con- 
tinue to be established by those who do not stop to investigate 
the relation between the cost of production and the prevailing 
prices. 1 
Turkeys Not a Commercial Success. 
In the case of turkeys, we find exactly opposite conditions. 
The price of turkeys has risen with the price of chickens and 
eggs, until one would think that there would be great money 
in the business, and there is, for the motherly farm wife who 
has the knack of bringing the little turks through the danger 
of delicate babyhood. But just as the duck is more domesti- 
cated than the chicken, so the turkey, which yet closely re- 
sembles its wild ancestor, is less domestic and has as yet 
failed to surrender to the ways of commercial reasoning, the 
chief factor of which is artificial brooding. 
The presence of a disease called blackhead has done vast 
injury to the turkey industry in the northeastern section of the 
country. In the South the industry has been booming. Espec- 
jially in Tennessee and Texas, I found great local pride in the 
turkey crop. I certainly would advise any farm wife, in sec- 
tions where blackhead does not prevail, to try her hand at 
turkey raising. As to her advisability of continuance in the 
business, the number of turkeys at the end of the season will 
be the best judge. 
Guinea Growing a New Venture. 
The guinea growing business is the newest of the poultry 
industries. In fact, it may be said of guineas, as of our grand- 
mother’s tomatoes, “Folks had them around without knowing 
they were of any use.” The new use for guineas is as a sub- 
stitute for game. Guinea broilers make quail-on-toast and 
older ones are good for grouse, prairie chicken or pheasant. 
The retail price in the large cities runs as high as $1.50 to 
$2.00 a pair. It will probably not pay to raise them unless one 
is sure of receiving as much as 50 cents each. As for the rear- 
ing of guineas, they may be considered on a parallel case with 
turkeys, if anything they are even more difficult to raise in 
large quantities. I would also advise this additional precau- 
tion: Look up the market in the locality before attempting 
guinea rearing. 
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