FIG. 26 1 /4-inch pelvic bone; indicating a slightly more beefy 

 hen than the preceding types, but still of the egg type. If of one- 

 finger abdomen, she would lay about 24 eggs in her first laying- 

 year; if of three-finger abdomen, about 138 eggs; and if of six-finger 

 abdomen, about 235 eggs in her first laying year. 



FIG. 27 3 / 8 -inch pelvic bone; indicating that the hen uses a 

 larger proport'on of the food she consumes in making flesh and less 

 in the production of eggs. A one-finger abdomen hen would lay 

 about 16 eggs; a three-finger abdomen hen, about 110 eggs; and 

 a six-finger abdomen hen, about 205 eggs in the first laying year. 



