If. 
CAPON PHILOSOPHY. 
WHAT IS A CAPON, AND WHAT IS HE 
GOOD FOR? 
HAVE to say something more about keeping 
males. About one-half the number of chicks 
in any flock are males. If they are early, so to be 
fit for ‘‘roasters’’ in June or July, you should 
always dispose of them at that time at the high 
prices then obtainable. You will make more money 
selling your two-and-a-half or three 
pound cockerels at 25 or 30 cents a 
pound than by selling five or six 
pound roosters at ten cents a pound in late fall or 
winter. Don’t keep ‘‘spring chickens”’ until they 
are old roosters. The question often is what to do 
with the later young cockerels. When they are of 
“‘spring chicken”’ size, autumn is fast approach- 
ing; the demand for ‘‘spring chickens’’ is past 
and the call is for old hens. To keep the young 
cockerels over means to raise a lot of old cocks of 
little value. I cannot afford to raise that kind of 
stock. They are a nuisance on the place, always 
mischievous, harassing laying hens and reducing 
Old Roosters Not 
Wanted. 
