| Show Greater Profit in Eggs gs Than Capons Ohio Station Finds From Test That Pullets Pay With broilers at 30 to 40 cents a pound it Is more atone profitable to feed teed pullets than capons So an nn experiment at the Ohio State university Indicates University found that all nil things being equal pullets were a better better better bet bet- ter business proposition than capons principally because the pullets laid laide e eggs gB while the capons were Just grow Ing In our experiment with capons says saya Prof 12 g. L. L Dakan head of the tho poultry department we were Interested interested Inter ested to determine whether It was more profitable to raise pullets or capons ca cn pons under the ordinary conditions of ot the farm with limited space and equipment We were slightly handicapped handicapped handi handl- capped because we lacked the time proper range rang for the capons which most farmers have but hut otherwise the condItIons conditions con con- were normal We caponized the cockerels at about twelve weeks and put put them on feed for six months At the same time we evaluated an equal number of or pullets pullets pul pul- lets Jets of about the same a age e and put them on feed for COl egg production When the time capons calons were sold at the end of six months mouths the pullets were again given iven a market price as a n means of comparison the he receipts for eggs added and the feed cost charged to each The Tue final re result showed showell the pullets more profitable than the ca ca- pons 0 |
