| Show breeds for Capan izing work ork T greiner la in camons capons for profit say says there Is a great difference in breeds and birds of all the breed that I 1 have tried I 1 find the Langs ban tho the easiest subject to operate on because the bird make bone first aud and flesh after afterward vard it la Is usually lean when young and shows shown the riba ribs quits plainly it offers littig di difficulty to the prompt removal of the testicles and apparently apparent lr la Is the least while under tho the operation besides thia this the Ings ban had haa the advantages ot of large size and great hardiness my next choice would be to the langsman Lang Langs iban ban and plymouth rock cross moat most ot of the ordinary mixed fowls of ot our barn yards are easily operated on cochins I 1 have never tried they are large and should make good capons brahman adrah will grow to largest size and may prove the most profitable of ap all breeds to this purpose yet the beginner will be apt to have trouble with the them the ribe ribs do not show prominently on the outside although this makes lettla difference to a per son after he has operated on a numb ar of fowls it may puzzle the beginner the mat most serious stumbling block however Is the shape of the testicle which in young brahma cockerels Is about a half inch long extending close and wormlike worm like along the big artery to slip a horsehair horse hair loop around the brahma testicle so 80 that it will catch on and cut its way between the testicle and the big artery Is no email small job for the tle beginner I 1 would not have succeeded quite so well with the brahman except for the ue use ot of steel wire in the place of horse hair my emphatic advice therefore Is to make the first trial with easy capani capon liers pe chally the langstan Langs ban hm or langsea Langs ba voss or with ordinary smaller breede breeds never with brahman Brah mas I 1 find it Is less trouble to op operate erato on young birds than on older birds it Is to also a good plan to use a dead bird tor for the first lesson shut the victim up tip without food or drink tor for 36 houra hours this Is to important as you want the tha intestines empty then chop his head off put him on the operating table in good light and go ahead making your examinations in cockerel anatomy why some come novices fall frequently the avice novice has cover never even seen a well we 11 equipped quipped fi poultry plant and has no knowledge at all of good methods ot doing the work says john II 11 robinson often he makes very hard work of very simple things just because beuse he has no ono to tell tei him or show him what to do I 1 had some correspondence act long ag ago 3 with a R man who mho was having a great deal ot of trouble with roup and rheumatism in hia his flock he ile used the most approved remedies for both without securing curing ee any permanent improvement in the general condition of hie his flock after repeated inquiries as to con conditions dillons I 1 learned that his houses were located on low damp ground where both soil and atmosphere were vere objectionable from a poultry mans points of view he ile bad had bought this land for a poultry farm because he bad had made up his mind to try poultry keeping and this waa was the only farm he had bad been able abla to find within the limited time ha he al lowed himself to find a farm that came within bis his means there Is another way in which poultry keeping Is hard bard for most people and very hard bard tor for noma sonid which few think of 0 until they learn it by experience the business Is very confining and so in time bo be comes monotonous no standard of cog production thera Is i a ax yet no standard of egg laying toward which the rul aultry try amser can work he ile does not know how many egge eggs a hen should lay the mw meiz that judge the poultry do not know how many eggs a hen should lay to bo be a good and wl the work of ot breeding toward a stand ard lor or fah production la Is well under yay way it haa at least half halt a century 2 start of the work of evolving a stand stan ard for egg laying this will require the work of many breeders through many years the road Is long and the labor of traye traversing it arbit art oua ous but the goal when hen reached wll repay all labor doubtless Doubt lea the ibee generation will see a well ell dafin l standard foe for the judging of fowls Lj daIly adapt ed to the production of eggs at the present time the standards for auch such fowls are made by their external cointa not by br their ability to produce egg in fact a good layer Is very apt to lose a contest in the egg laying classes at poultry shows because the act of ot laying many maur aga eggs puts her out of shape so tho the bowmen showman say axy agricultural education la Is a thing that the farmer can no longer afford to ignore wom in the axt alwa hf collected collect od a greater tax from the form farm or than have the town county att ute and 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