Show Guinea Raising Is Quite Qui e Profitable Substituted in Fashionable Hotels for Various Kinds of Game Birds Prepared b by the UnIted StAtes State Department of Agriculture Guinea raIsIng Is becoming more mare profitable as a result or of theIr successful success success- ful substitution in fashionable hotels and eating places for such game birds as grouse quail and partridge says the United States Department of Ag Ab When well cooked guineas are attractive in appearance although darker than common fowl and the flesh or of young oung birds Is tender and of especially fine flavor resembling that of wLl game rame The census figures show u an increase of SG 36 per cent In the number of guinea fowl on farms In InH H 1020 O over the number In 1 1010 10 Rats Raise in n Small Flocks A few of the large poultry raisers particularly those within easy reach of the large eastern markets make a practice or of raisIng n a hundred or so guIneas each year but the great majority major major- Ity or of guineas are raIsed in small flocks of from 10 to 25 on the farms of the Middle West and of the South The highest prices for guIneas are paId In the large eastern markets who are near these markets markets mar mar- or who have developed a trade among private customers receIve prices that make this Industry very profitable Wholesale prIces In New NewYork York ork usually range from rom 1 to per pair for dressed sprIng guineas They are arc marketed late In the summer when they weigh from one to to one and one half pounds when two and one halt months of age and also throughout the fall when the demand Is for heavIer birds Guinea hens usually begin to lay In April or May those In the South layIng laying lay lay- Ing earlier than those In the North i From 20 to 30 and often more eggs are laid before the hen guinea becomes becomes be- be comes broody at which time she can be broken braken of her lier broodiness easily eally by removing the eggs from the nest when she will soon begin la laying again It If not allowed to sit Bit guinea gUinen hens will continue to lay throughout the summer summer sum sum- mer laying from 40 to GO 60 and In some cases eggs during the season Persistent Layers As profitable egg producers guinea hens cannot compete with ordinary hens but durIng the latter part of tire thc sp spring ing and during the summer they i iare are persistent layers The eggs are smaller than hens hen's eggs and consequently consequently conse- conse bring lower prices being graded as small eggs The chief claim to profitableness on the farm Is tine the demand for the fowl by the eastern markets for supplying the hotel demand demand de- de mand for a wild game substitute TheIr noisy never ending harsh cry which Is often cause for their unpopularity unpopularity larity on the farm Is really really- really point a In favor of keeping a few or of them as they are e excellent sentrIes giving gi warnIng or of marauders in the poultry yard Their pugnacious disposition while sometimes causing disturbances among other poultry also makes them show fight against ag hawks and other common enemies so that guineas som sometimes some some- times are kept as guards over the poultry yard |