94 PROFITS IN POULTRY. 



can truly say that by using no more care, and with 

 no more skill, than is needed in operating upon a 

 male pig, not more than one out of 30 or 40 fowls need 

 be lost. For several years the writer has operated on 

 from 12 to 30 fowls each year, and the loss during that 

 time has not been more than five or six birds in all. 

 The operation is best performed upon chickens about 3 

 months old, although it will succeed, if carefully done, 



Fig. 55. CAPONIZINO TABLE. 



with the majority of fowls when they are 10 or 12 months 

 old. As with many other operations, this is one that 

 can be learned most readily by seeing it done, and we 

 advise those who would undertake it to procure instruc- 

 tion wherever it is available. Still, if one has a little 

 confidence, he will meet with success if the directions 

 here given are carefully followed. In the first place, a 

 table is needed in which a few screw-eyes are inserted 



