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they wished to scratch for, with an occasional mash; and 

 the beef-type hens should be fed what grain they could clean 

 up in the scratching-shed in about an hour. The litter should 

 be good and deep in all cases. I did not mention charcoal, 

 grit, shells, and green stuff, as that is not my business. Every 

 man who takes a poultry paper knows that part of the business, 

 and every person who keeps poultry should take a poultry 

 paper in order to keep posted on current poultry topics. 



The gentleman wrote me over a^year later that he had 

 succeeded in bringing the hen up to normal condition, as in 

 Fig. 19, but after laying awhile she went back to five fingers 

 abdomen and one finger out of condition, and had laid 238 

 eggs her next laying year. 



We will now take another hen. She may be a four-finger 

 abdomen, as in Fig. 15, in good condition, as in Fig. 19, 

 and her pelvic bones may be'Vie of an inch thick, as in Fig. 

 24. She would read. four fingers abdomen; good condition; 

 1 /i6-inch pelvic bone. If we consult Chart 4, we will find 

 she is a 220-egg type hen. 



The next hen may be also four fingers abdomen, as in 

 Fig. 15, in good condition, as in Fig. 19, with pelvic bones 



CHART 4. 

 Four-finger Abdomen. 



Vie pelvic bone 220 eggs 



I /g pelvic bone 205 eggs 



3 /ie pelvic bone 190 eggs 



Y 4 pelvic bone 175 eggs 



Vie pelvic bone. . 160 eggs 



3 / 8 pelvic bone 145 eggs 



7 /i6 pelvic bone 130 eggs 



Va pelvic bone 115 eggs 



Vie pelvic bone 100 eggs 



5 /s pelvic bone 85 eggs 



II /i6 pelvic bone 70 eggs 



3 /4 pelvic bone 55" eggs 



13 /i6 pelvic bone 40 eggs 



7 /s pelvic bone 25 eggs 



15 /IB pelvic bone 40 eggs 



1-in. pelvic bone .....' eggs 



p H 5 



