100 THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



thick. You should feed the pen for eggs, and keep them as healthy as 

 possible. If they are fed right, you will get lots of eggs and good, healthy 

 chicks, capable of putting on flesh rapidly and fattening very easily. 

 As a paying proposition for market broilers I have never found any 

 combination that would equal it. 



FIG. 52 The dry-mash hopper we use, open. 



But for my private use, without regard to profit, I would take the 

 same combination as the above, except that the pelvic bones of the hens 

 would be 1 inch thick, instead of about VsJ this would give a broiler 

 that would put on flesh much faster, consequently it would be more 

 tender. I have raised broilers the flesh of which would almost melt in 

 your mouth. I have a few secrets in the raising of them which I have 

 never divulged, but may do so in a few years. 



CHAPTER XV. 



USING THE HOGAN TEST IN JUDGING POULTRY AT THE POULTRY SHOWS. 

 From the Live Stock Tribune, Los Angeles, California.. 



(Now Pacific Poultry craft.} 

 "INGLE WOOD POULTRY SHOW. 



"A poultry show will be held in the Inglewood Poultry Colony on 

 March 13th and 14th. This show will be the first of its kind ever given 

 in the United States. All poultry shows that have been held in this 

 country heretofore have awarded prizes according to the color, markings, 

 and shape of the fowls only. The show at Inglewood will be unusual 

 in that prizes will be awarded irrespective of the color, variety, shape, 

 size or age of the fowls in competition. 



"Birds in competition will be judged as to their egg-laying capacities 

 and reproductive abilities only. The judging will be done by the system 

 discovered and perfected by Walter Hogan and now used in practical 

 poultry-raising by the members of the Inglewood Poultry Colony. 



