8 CAPONS FOR PROFIT. 
and more improvements in management are needed. 
One of them is in the matter of feeding. Corn is 
yet fed by far too extensively and exclusively. It 
is not a fit grain to be used in this manner. Wheat 
is cheap, and considering its value as a flesh and 
egg producer, much cheaper than corn. It can and 
should be made use of for poultry feed much more 
extensively than it now is. 
Then there is this matter of keeping useless males. 
They are allowed to comsume a large share of the 
food that might be made to produce eggs, and meat 
worth five or ten cents a pound more than that of 
old roosters. I keep one male bird for 30 to 50 hens, 
and the chicks I raise are strong and healthy, ap- 
parently every egg being fertile. What is the use 
of feeding three or four old roosters when one will 
do as well or better? They do more harm than good. 
Where hens are kept to lay eggs for table use, not 
for hatching, we can go much further, even, and 
dispense with males entirely. 
