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inch. We look on Chart 5 at Vie pelvic bone, and find she 

 is a 250-egg type hen. 



Our next hen may be a five-finger-abdomen hen, as in 

 Fig. 16; she may be in good condition, as in Fig. 19, and her 

 pelvic bones may be 3 /g inch thick, as in Fig. 27. We would 

 read her as five fingers abdomen; good condition, and 3 / 8 -inch 

 pelvic bones. Chart 5 would show us that she was a 175-egg 

 type hen. 



The next hen may be a five-finger-abdomen hen; con- 

 dition good; pelvic bones 1 inch thick. She would read five 

 fingers abdomen; good condition; 1-inch pelvic bones. The 

 chart would indicate that she was a 25-egg type hen. 



The next hen may be a six-finger-abdomen hen, as in 

 Fig. 17; she may be in good condition, and her pelvic bones 

 may be 1^ inches thick as in Fig. 31. I hear the reader 

 say, "What breed of a hen has pelvic bones as thick as that? 

 or do you mean that both of her pelvic bones are iy 4 inches 

 thick, counting them both together?" No; I mean that each 

 one of her pelvic bones is l l /4 inches thick. Counting the 

 bone, gristle, fat, and flesh (flank), both of the pelvic bones 

 would be 2 1 / 2 inches thick. When we speak of pelvic bones 

 being so and so thick, we always mean one of them. And as 

 to breed, this hen is a Single Comb White Leghorn; she is the 

 typical beef type. You will see by Chart 6 that she will lay 

 practically nothing; and here I will explain this matter. 



A man once brought me a two-and-a-half-year-old hen 

 that he had trap-nested for two years, and asked me to tell 

 him how many eggs she had laid her first laying-year. I told 

 him she had never laid an egg. Her abdomen was six fingers, 

 she was in good condition, and her pelvic bones were P/4 

 inches thick. 



CHART 6. 

 Six-finger Abdomen. 



NERVOUS TEMPERAMENT. 



Vie pelvic bone 280 eggs 



Vs pelvic bone 265 eggs 



Vie pelvic bone 250 eggs 



Y 4 pelvic bone 235 eggs 



5 /ie pelvic bone 220 eggs 



