20 CAPONS FOR PROFIT. 
operate on, or set out to caponize your surplus 
roosters for profit, year after year, as you should, 
you will want a more convenient table. Dow, and 
others, advise you to have a table made for this 
special purpose in as simple a style as you please, 
with cleats around the top at the right to prevent 
the tools from falling off, a two inch hole in the 
center at the left, with a weighted lever underneath 
and a mortise six to eight inches long from right to 
left, also in about the center of the table, witha 
sliding lever, weighted underneath. A twine loop 
is fastened on each one of the levers, passed up 
through auger-hole or mortise, and slipped one over 
the wings, the other over the feet, thus securely 
holding the subject for the operation. 
You can also make a table such as is shown in 
Fig. 1. It consists of a round 
_ board larger than a barrel-head, 
“) resting on an empty, headless 
* barrel. Weighted straps or 
bands are drawn through two 
holes bored at proper dis- 
tances, and hold the chicks’ 
|) wings and legs, as may be seen 
in the picture. This table has 
the advantage that you can 
A turn it toward the light to suit, 
Fia.1. Barren as Opurat- Without moving the barrel. But 
ING: TABLE. it affords no good chance to . 
place the tools and is not excessively handy. 
The table I use is illustrated in Fig. 2. It is a 
light, cheap kitchen table, such as we happened to 
have to spare, three and a half feet long and twenty- 
