. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . acked grains and small seeds, such aswere recommended for chicks, are the best foods forthese birds. We must be careful not to overfeed,for these are active little creatures, and soon arequite able to fill their little craws with insects. Liketurkeys, they earn the most of their living, but un-like turkeys, inbreeding and domestication have notapparently detracted from a naturally vigorous con-stitution. Guineas, thus brought up, upon becom-ing parents themselves, are usually so tame thatthey will bring their young to the yard once or twicea
. Profitable stock feeding; a book for the farmer . acked grains and small seeds, such aswere recommended for chicks, are the best foods forthese birds. We must be careful not to overfeed,for these are active little creatures, and soon arequite able to fill their little craws with insects. Liketurkeys, they earn the most of their living, but un-like turkeys, inbreeding and domestication have notapparently detracted from a naturally vigorous con-stitution. Guineas, thus brought up, upon becom-ing parents themselves, are usually so tame thatthey will bring their young to the yard once or twicea day to be fed, and very grateful the littlethings seem for a bit of food. However, when TURKEYS AND GUINEAS. 355 the parents are wild and show a decided preferenceto be let alone, it is quite as well to let them havetheir way. When cold weather sets in, they willbring their flocks to the barn-yard, but these willnever become so iriendly as guineas hatched byfowls or by guineas which are themselves compara-tivelv tame. 356 PROFITABLE STOCK PART VII HORSES CHAPTER XXXV. TYPES OF HORSES.—SUMMER FEEDINGFOR WORK. While cattle hav^e been used in the past as beastsof burden, the horse is now ahnost entirely reliedupon for the production of all kinds of work, be itdraAving- a loaded wagon, an implement of tillage, aroad vehicle, or carrying a load upon the back. Forthe most economical performance of these differ-ent kinds of work, horses have been bred and devel-oped along- rather distinct and well defined lines. Justas the freight traffic upon our railroads calls for anengine built for heavy hauls and the passenger servicecalls for one built for high speed—neither engine be-ing adapted for the work of the other—so the drafthorse has been developed for strength and the roadsterfor speed, each being well adapted for its particularservice only. Horses, then, are classified in a gen-eral way as drafters and roadsters; there are manygradations between, which for convenience
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