| Show CAPONS PUT PUNCH IN POULTRY PROFITS demand for capons always exceeds supply and much ci eater demand could easily be created how about a nice capon in quiren the butcher in an effort to be helpful the prospective pur chaser reddened slightly and shook his head after browsing helplessly around tor for an embarrassingly long time he finally compromised on a rolled roast As the cu went out the butcher a shoulders were shaking with poorly suppressed mirth darn tool fool he chuckled bet ten bucks that guy t even know what capon meant didia notice how he blushed when I 1 suggested it ita I 1 I 1 had to agree with my friend the butcher that the gentleman probably did not know what a capon was and that he chose something else in a vain effort to hide his embarrass ment I 1 knew him to be a successful business man and one who rather prided himself on his knowledge ot of tine fine foods nevertheless it was plain that capon was something entirely outside of his experience I 1 would have been willing to wager too that this man mans s case was a typical one that was twenty years ago today although the market Is cap able of absorbing tar far more capons than are being offered tor for sale it would still he be sate safe to say that a great many people do not know what a capon really Is here in short Is a virgin field with such tremendous ly rich possibilities that one must gasp in amazement on realizing that is is practically unworked I 1 believe that poultry men are them selves to blame tor for this state of at fairs many of them refuse to tice caponizing at all and those who do so merely produce capons as a side line for that reason the supply has alleys been too small to justify any attempt at educating the gener goner al public into appreciation of the most delectable food this old earth has ever known at least there has been nothing better since the catering establishment on mount olympus ceased serving nectar of course this condition will not last forever poultry raisers are not going to stand around forever doing nothing once they realize that ca pons will bring a pound or more when ordinary poultry Is going for little better than halt half that much sooner or later they will get tired of seeing this golden stream slipping by them and they will start raising ca pons in earnest in the meantime if it all poul trinen everywhere who have never before attempted raising ca pons will give it a fair trial just once there la is no question but that they will be confirmed converts tor for ever after incidentally capons make excell ent foster mothers for baby chicks that is they can be taught easily to care for and brood a bunch of newly hatched baby chicks and do it as well or better than a hen will A capon being larger will hover from twenty to thirty chicks and they can protect their chicks from hawks etc much better than a hen the ca P pon on s feathers are longer softer and more abundant than those ot of a hen and his wing spread considerably greater his amiable disposition tits fits him admirably tor for the task and releases the hen tor for laying caponizing which Is simply re moving the reproductive organs of young male birds Is a very ismile operation A ten year old boy could soon learn to do it quickly and sue cess fully the first practicing can be done on dead birds even it in trying on one alive one or two bleed to death they are just as good tor for the table as though killed in any oth er way the flesh of a capon Is so much finer in quality that it commands a higher price it would be useless tor for me to give detailed instructions here but will say this one word buy the best in st strum ants it Is money well saved almost any breed of fowl may ba be used although there would be little gained in caponizing small breeds the best tor for medium sized capons are plymouth rocks rhode rhod e island reds and others running about the same size these when caponized will run from two to tour four pounds heavier than the average fowl not so treated there never was a turkey hall halt as tender as a capon editors note it you are inter ested in caponizing write to dr L D legear beck beek ave st louis missouri |
