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THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



when advertising, risk, packages, and packing, corre- 

 spondence, etc., are considered. 



There is a good New York market for young Guinea 

 broilers in the autumn and early winter months. This 

 market is a growing one, and it is to be expected that 

 the trade in Guineas and their eggs will reach a better 

 condition in the near future. 



Some large hotels place Guinea iiesh regularly on 

 their bills of fare under its own name, but probably 

 more of it is consumed as " game." Its gamy flavor 

 renders it such a favorite on some farms that there are 

 no surplus Guineas for sale from them. Guineas arc 

 light eaters, and at all times prefer to range for their 

 own chosen tidbits, in shape of weed seeds, insects, etc. 

 They are not destructive, so far as I know, and are 

 sometimes valuable protectors, as no intruder can visit 

 any poultry yard without their raising a racket. 



To place quail among poultry is to make some people 

 open their eyes questioningly, but Herbert K. Job, the 

 enthusiastic state ornithologist of Connecticut, states 

 his conviction that this will be the status of the quail at 

 no very distant date. 



As a matter of fact, a Government Bulletin (No. 

 182) put out in 1903, says: "The industry of taming 

 and raising quails for aviaries and for the table is still 

 very small, but if reports can be relied upon it is per- 

 haps well enough established to suggest classifying the 

 birds with poultry." 



It is a dozen years, I think, since I had some talk 

 with a very successful squab raiser of southern New 

 Jersey about quail. He was then experimenting with 

 them, and was quite of the belief that success would 



