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THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



Here in California we use the figures 5, 7, 9, and 11 for the hen sixteen 

 months old, meaning by this that hens having pelvic bones 6 /i 6 , Vie, 

 9 /ie and u /ie inches in thickness (depending on the depth of abdomen) 

 will be the maximum thickness of pelvic bones of really profitable hens; 

 or in other words this means a three-finger abdomen hen, 6 /i 6 -inch 

 pelvic bone; four-finger-abdomen hen, 7 /i 6 -inch pelvic bone; five-finger- 

 abdomen hen, 9 /i6-inch pelvic bone; six-finger-abdomen hen, u /i6-inch 

 pelvic bone. Anything below this line (that is, any hen having a thicker 

 bone in the different classes) goes to market. For the twenty-eight- 

 months-old hen we assume that they are hatched in March and sold 

 in the summer. We use the figures 3, 5, 7, and 9 /ie for the three-, four-, 

 five-, and six-finger-abdomen hens. For the forty-months-old hens we 



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