San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-06-22
The Dai1Y eight.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE %, 1892.
Csponizing Chicken.

tits nov approaching time when
chickens Matched in March and
April will have reached the prone,
size TO caponize. Que has only to
watch the market reports In their
weekly papers to learn the large
price capons sell for compared with
chickens; and a person who is engag.
ed in the poultry business wants OF
course TO make all the profit they can
with their birds; aud TO grow capons
IS something that can not fail to pay
any one handsomely. Those who
keep pure stock, choice bred fowls,
may wish to grow their best cockerels
TO sell for breeders; but so many
people are producing such stock st
the present day that the sale for such
Is very limited. A cockered that lie
caponizsd and grown to o good, fat
capon will often bring moro money
than he would for breeding stock.
AT any rate, no matter how choice
your stock In raising lot OF chickens
You will always have more or less
culls, birds that are not properly
formed or marked 10 keep tor breeders
And rhese can ell be made into capOr Q
Those who are not breeding fancy or
pure stock should by all means cape.
nizs their young cockerels for several
important reasons. First of all is the
benefit to he derived in the large
price to be obtained for the birds to
be caponized. Second, they are much
easier cared for aud more cheaply
kept after being Saponizsd. As this
act changes .neir whole nature, in
place OF :. restless, rowing, lighting
-cocS ,rel you have . quiet, dOcile,
peaceful bird, that will not roam all
over your place, run all his flesh Oh
after pullets and hens, and not fight
with other birds.
Ihave repeatedly kept q careful
account of the cost of growing q capon
and while the figures have varied
slightly with the cost of grain, l
have found that &c or Sc pound will
cover all cost, including . proper
CHI arge'- for time and labor. l
never have sold dressed cspon tor
less than % pound, and frequently
as high IS 30o pound. Why, last
season capons all brought me 25o .
pound, and could have sold ten
times more than l had. II . person
had good lot of capons at this date
MAY 25) to sell, they could get very
large price for them. There are so
few capons produced that our markets
are only supplied for few months in
the winter and early spring. From
this time on until winter but very few
capons can be found. And yet If oil r
poultry people W, uld only produce
them, they would find good demand
for them all summer. The steward
who attends one of the largest hotels
in Florida in the winter and big
summer resort North In the summer
informed me he should be glad to
have cspons on his bill of fare every
day in the year If he could find the
capons in the markets In the sum-
mer; but he says it is only once in q
while he can find them. Now Ii does
seem STRANGE, with all these facts ex
isting but people who grow poultry
do not take advantage of the situation
aud produce all the capons they can.
There is nothing difficult abont the
work, nothing that any man, woman
or boy can not perform with perfect
ease and safety. For many years /
have advocated this work, and have
done all in my power to attract pOul-
profit. Aud I shall continue my work
until see the practice universally
adopted in the United States, as it
has been In France for many years
THE WONDERS OF OUR Lam
GUAGE
Boston Commercial.
The construction of the English
language must appear most iormid-
ably TO q foreigner. One of them
looking at picture of q number of
vessels said: "See that flick of
shipsn He was told that flock of
ships was called fleet, and that a fleet
OF sheep was called q flock.
Aud it was added for his guidance
ia mastering the intricacies OF our
language that "a flock of girls is
called bevy, that a bevy of wolves
is called pack, and pack of thieves
is called gang, aud a gang of angels
Is called host, and host of porpoi-
ses is called q herd, aud herd of
children is called a troop, and q troop
of pa tridges is called q convey, and a
covey of beauties Is called galaxy,
aud a galaxy of rUffians Is called
horde, and horde of rub bish Is call
ed heap. and deap of oxen is call
ed drove, and q drove of black
guards ia called mob, and mob of
whales is called school and q school
of worshipers is called a congregation
and congregation of engineers is
called q corps, and a corps of robbers
is called band, and band of locust