62 THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



We will drop her and take another from the crate. She 

 may be two fingers abdomen and two fingers out of condition, 

 as in Fig. 21, with pelvic bones 1 /i of an inch thick. She 

 would read two fingers abdomen and two fingers out of condi- 



CHART 2. 



Two-finger Abdomen. 



Vie pelvic bone 96 eggs 



Vs pelvic bone 87 eggs 



3 /i6 pelvic bone 78 eggs 



1 /4 pelvic bone 69 eggs 



5 /ie pelvic bone '. 60 eggs 



3 /g pelvic bone 51 eggs 



7 /ie pelvic bone 42 eggs 



1 /2 pelvic bone 33 eggs \ 



9 /ie pelvic bone ... 24 eggs 



5 /s pelvic bone 15 eggs 



11 /IB pelvic bone 6 eggs 



3 /4 pelvic bone eggs 



tion. She would be four fingers abdomen if in condition, and 

 1 /4-inch pelvic bones. Being a four-finger-abdomen hen (if in 

 condition), we will look on Chart 4 at 1 / 4 -inch pelvic bone, 

 and find she is a 175-egg type hen. We will drop her. 



Take another. She may be a two-finger-abdomen hen, 

 as in Fig. 13, in good condition, as in Fig. 19, with pelvic 

 bones 3 / 4 of an inch thick, as in Fig. 29. She would read 

 two fingers abdomen; good condition; 3 /4-inch pelvic bones. 

 We will look on Chart 2 for 3 /4-inch pelvic bone, and find 

 this hen will lay nothing. This does not mean that she is 

 an absolutely barren hen, that she will never lay an egg (I will 

 explain this when we get to the six-finger-abdomen hen) ; 

 she may lay a few, perhaps half a dozen, in the spring when 

 the crows lay; but as a commerical proposition she will 

 have no more value than the hen that never laid an egg. 

 Everything she consumes goes to the making of flesh, except 

 what she uses in bodily maintenance. 



We will drop her and take another. She may be a three- 

 finger-abdomen hen, as in Fig. 14. Her condition may be 

 as in Fig. 19, with pelvic bones as in Fig. 24. She would read 

 three fingers abdomen ; in good condition; Yie-inch pelvic bone. 



