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Show Cockerels as Broilers Preferred to Capons According to experiments conducted con-ducted at the poultry department at the State College of Agriculture in New York, there is a very small margin of profit in growing capons compared to selling the cockerels as broilers. Feed seems to be the greatest item of extra cost. In some sections, relatively low feed costs and a high price for capons on account of good demand might make the business very profitable. In other localities the matter of feed, housing and labor over the period of six or eight months very often eats up the margin between the price obtainable for the broilers broil-ers and the price for the capons. On the other hand capons have proved exceptionally profitable for many. |