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Show " CARE FOR FLOCK OF GUINEAS Nervous, Excitable Fowl Can Be , Overcome by Gentle Treatment j . Tender While Young. , Although the nervous, excitable disposition dis-position of the guinea cannot be overcome over-come by gentle treatment and petting, .the guinea la easily taught to return home from Its wanderings at night, if It Is so taught while young, and for this reason It Is usually better to buy eggs and hatch them under a chicken 'hen rather than buy old birds and ' ' remove them to a strange place. The guinea Is very tender while young, and It Is best to have them .hatched during the warmer part of the season. They roust have dry quarter quar-ter slid If hatched under a chicken 1 ' I H i I) tiilnn 1 f iiiinirai r"iT 1 ir u Excitable Guinea Hens. hen thoy must be confined In a coop or hox so closely that they cunnot escape es-cape and run away for a few dnys 1 ' until thoy learn the hen's call. AftPr they are a few dnys old they . lire lMtr If allowed to ruu at large to KHi''r their own food. They nmy h fi'tl mornings Hnd evenings, but will gmlier most of their food. The guinea hiMi hiis a rather bnd reputation as aj mother, but It Is according to nature! fur every species of animal life to know how to care for Its own young, L . , mid our experience Is that under or-1 (Unary cuii'llilonS the g liuea hen . known better how to care for her , young tlmu any foster mother. Of; course a guinea lieu, or any other hen. for ilutt mutter, cannot succeed In retiring retir-ing u flock of young ketits If they are hatched lute In the fall. 1 |