. Capons for profit: how to make and how to manage them. Plain instructions given by a beginner for the beginner. Capons and caponizing. 20 CAPONS FOi: 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 l
. Capons for profit: how to make and how to manage them. Plain instructions given by a beginner for the beginner. Capons and caponizing. 20 CAPONS FOi: 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, with a 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 turn it toward the light to suit, FiQ. 1. Barrel as ophrat- without moving the barrel. But iHo TABLE. i^ 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-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Greiner, Tuisco, 1846-. La Salle, N. Y. T. Greiner
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