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THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



FIG. 28 %-inch pelvic bone; indicating a still more beefy hen than the preceding 

 that is, a still larger proportion of the food consumed is used to make flesh and less 

 to produce eggs. If of one-finger abdomen, she would lay about 8 eggs; and if of three- 

 finger abdomen, she would lay about 82 eggs; while if of six-finger abdomen, she would 

 lay about 175 eggs in the first laying year. 



FIG. 29 %-inch pelvic bone. A pretty good specimen of the beef type. We 

 find no two-finger abdomen hens that have pelvic bones so thick, because they cannot 

 consume enough food with such pelvic bones. A two-finger abdomen hen is virtually 

 a non-layer; a three-finger abdomen hen will lay about 24 eggs, and a six-finger abdomen 

 hen will lay about 115 eggs in the first laying year. 



