104 THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



SALEM, ORE., April 19, 1913. 



Received baby chicks; they are just lovely; not one dead, which 

 we think is great. They came in fine shape. 



MR. AND MRS. HAVRE. 



SEATTLE, WASH., August 25, 1912. 



Received the 1040 chicks about ten weeks ago; there were five 

 dead in the boxes. Have lost about 75 of them, all told. 



S. K. SUTTLE. 



TUCSON, ARIZ., February 17, 1913. 



Received chicks in good condition; 1 dead, 623 alive and kicking. 



L. E. SMITH. 



RENO, NEV., March 11, 1913. 



Chicks came through fine; 1 dead in 700, which speaks well for their 

 vitality. They surely are a spry bunch. A. L. RICE. 



RENO, NEV., July 22, 1913. 



Chicks are fine; they are the largest and best-looking ever seen in 

 Nevada. They are just 4 months and 12 days old. One of them laid 

 yesterday. Every poultryman that sees them remarks it's too bad I 

 haven't a thousand. A. L. RICE. 



The preceding extracts are taken from a few of the many unsolicited 

 letters I have received from my customers during the last two years 

 that I have been selling hatching eggs and day-old chicks. I have 

 repeatedly shipped hatching eggs to the Hawaiian Islands and as far 

 east as Minnesota, and day-old chicks where they would be over seventy- 

 two hours on the road. Last summer I turned down over $6,000 worth 

 of orders that I could not fill at $10.00 per 100 for eggs and $15.00 per 

 100 for day-old chicks. I am aware I will have a hard time convincing 

 some of my readers that what I claim for the 200-egg hen is true, but it 

 seems to me any progressive poultryman would be satisfied with the 

 proof I offer him. I will admit that the eggs and chicks from the 200-egg 

 type hens as now bred are not all we would desire, but that is owing to 

 lack of proper knowledge of breeding. As I have said before, by using 

 the "Hogan Test" the reader can breed as fine or as coarse as his condi- 

 tions require; and by selecting only those birds with large prepotency 

 he will be assured of success. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



"AT SEA OVER MATING" WHAT SHALL IT BE, THE TRAP-NEST, 

 MENDELISM, OR THE HOGAN TEST? 



(From The North "American, Philadelphia, Pa.) 

 "AT SEA OVER MATING. 



"America has some good layers, unheard of and unknown, 'tis true, 

 but we are evidently all at sea in the matter of mating for egg-production. 



