OPERATING TABLEs. 19 
weight—Langshan, Cochin, Brahma, Plymouth 
Rock. 
I also find that it is less trouble to operate on 
comparatively young subjects than on older and 
larger ones. When I want an easy job I take a two 
pound Langshan, Langshan cross or Plymouth Rock. 
My lLangshan-Plymouth Rock crosses seldom 
flinched even when the incisions were made or the 
testicles twisted off, while Brahmas, which’ are 
usually taken at more advanced age and size (four 
pounds or more) offer more or less resistance, and 
must be held more firmly. 
It is also a good plan to use a dead subject for the 
first lesson. Shut the victim up without food or 
drink for 36 hours. This is important, as you want 
the intestines empty. Then chop his head of, put 
him on the operating table in good light, and other- 
wise in the same way as will be described for the 
operation on a live subject, and go ahead making 
your observations in cockerel anatomy. 
An empty barrel, bottom side up, may be made to 
answer for a table, the fow] being held by means of 
one stout twinetied around the wings next the body 
and another tied around the legs, the 
Operating free ends of both hanging down on the 
side of the barrel and weighted with a 
brick or piece of iron. I would put padding of some 
kind, a piece of old carpet or a rag, upon the barrel 
head under the chick, thus giving him as comforta- 
ble a rest as possible under the circumstances. This 
kind of operating-table, however, is 4 poor make- 
shift at best. 
When you have a large number of cockerels ta 
