Show NO GREAT PROFIT IN RAISING CAPONS Inadvisable to Rear Chicks for Meat Alone Claims for rapid and great In- In Increase increase In Increase crease In weight after caponizing cockerels arc are disputed by experIment experiment ment stations that lint have invest invest- Investigated gated them A bulletin from the Cornell experiment station quotes Agriculture the Maryland State College of Ag- Ag Agriculture Ag as having found that the rate of growth th of cockerels and ca- ca ca capons puns Ions compare compared 1 very closely up to the time of the tho maturity of the cockerels the cockerels being slightly more efficient in the use of food After maturity was reached thIs relation was reversed the cra capons ons becoming slightly more effi efficient cleat clent The same results were ob- ob obtaIned ob obtained obtained at Cornell The Illinois sta- sta station sta station tion found that up to six forty forty weeks there was little difference In Inthe Inthe Inthe the growing of capons and cock cock- cockerels cockerels The Cornell statement with re- re recard regard re regard gard c-ard to this continues with the cau cau- cautionary cautionary paragraph Apparently the extravagant claims have not been founded upon facts Under Undermost Undermost Undermost most New York state conditions It ItIs itis ItIs Is not advisable to attempt to raise capons for the New York Tork wholesale market However In lo- lo localities lo localities where a special trade can be built up and premium ob- ob It may be profitable to pro pro- produce produce duce dace them A plump juIcy capon cannot be excelled by any poultry for fine table quality and doubtless many con con- continue continue to produce them primarily for home us use This seems to corre corro- correspond spond with the opinions of numer numer- numerous numerous numerous ous poultry keepers who have tried producing capons for tor the wholesale whole whole- wholesale wholesale sale markets and have found that feed ee 1 costs have been too great to permit any great profit In the rais rats raisIng raising ing lag of ot fowls for meat alone alone Yorker New |