Show CAPONIZING IS NOT SERIOUS OPERATION Unattended by Pain or Danger to the Cockerel Fowls Being Prepared Should Be Placed In Dark Well Ventilated Coop Without Access to Feed or Water for 36 Hours The most profitable form of swatting swatting swatting swat ting the rooster Is to make a capon capou of him June Is Is' the best month for far caponizing as as cockerels so treated I n. n y t ss M J w P 4 0 t. t r- r t V t. t ii W n 1 A 1 i Typical Capon Capon N Notice Capon Notice tice Absence of Comb Wattles and the Long Hackle Feathers and the Plump Well Well- Filled Body this month will be ready for for the market market marl mar mar- l ket et next February when the demand is strongest and prices at their highest highest highest high high- est tide Caponizing has not been generally generall practiced perhaps because of the no no- tion that the operation is very dim dim- cult But after a a little practice 1 If the bird Is properly prepared the operation operation operation op op- op- op is er very simple and easily performed performed performed per per- formed and is unattended by pain ardan or ar dan danger er to the cockerel The period of preparation should be not less than 30 36 hours during which time the birds should be placed placed- In a dark well ventilated ventilated ventilated venti venti- coop without access to feed or water This Is to empty the Intestines so the they will be out of the way when the operation is performed Full explanation explanation explanation ex ex- ex- ex of the method to be employed employed employed em em- will be found accompanying the caponizing tools Cockerels intended for caponizIng should weigh from one and a half haIr to two pounds When ready far for market market market mar mar- ket they should weigh eight to twelve pounds The best breeds to caponize are the meat types such as the Barred Rock Hock Brah- Brah mas and Cochins The Barred Rock Is the breed preferred b by many for tor this purpose I Capons can be raised success successfully ully by the city back lotter as they do donot donot donot not require the exercise and range ranee so essential to fo the best developed fancy stock Capons can also be allowed to run with the hens without ImpairIng impairing impair- impair ing lag the Infertility desirable in eggs eggs eggs' for marketing as is the case with young oung cockerels But the argument that should appeal most strongly to the producer Is that the capon with practically the same amount of care and expense will bring from 50 per perc c cant nt to per cent more on the market market market mar mar- ket than the cockerel |