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 to30 fowls each year, and the loss during that 
time has not been more than five or six birds in all. 
‘Tbe operation is best performed upon chickens about 3 
months old, although it will succeed, if carefully done, 
Fig. 55.—caponizING 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 
advisé 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 
