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laying in the yard." And as he was offered $1,000 for her, 

 he was very anxious to get some chickens from her. I explained 

 to him that while most typical beef hens could be made to 

 lay a very small number of eggs in the spring when the crows 

 laid, by feeding them a little lean meat and shrunken wheat 

 and bran on a grass plot of white clover (if the blossoms of 

 the white clover are clipped off), that his hen could not be 

 made to lay, as she was a barren hen, as indicated by the 

 rigid cord that connected both of the pelvic bones together, 

 thus indicating that Nature never intended her to lay. I 

 could name a number of professors and physicians that have 

 told me they have discovered the same condition after they 

 had taken my lessons. 



The reader will please bear in mind that the two pelvic 

 bones of a hen are not always of the same thickness. Some 

 hens may have one pelvic bone thicker than the other; when 

 this is the case, add the two together and half of the number 

 will be the right thickness to judge by. For instance, if one 

 pelvic bone was Vs of an inch and the other one was J /4 f an 

 inch, the added thickness would be 3 / 8 of an inch; dividing 

 this would give you 3 /ie of an inch as the thickness of one 

 pelvic bone. Where one bone is thicker than the other, 

 the thinnest one is on the left side of the hen. 



Our next hen may be another six-finger-abdomen hen, as 

 in Fig. 17, she may be in good condition, as in Fig. 19, and 

 her pelvic bones may be l / of an inch thick, as in Fig. 25; 

 she would be a 265-egg type hen. 



' Our next hen may be a six-finger-abdomen hen in good 

 condition; pelvic bones 3 / 8 inch; she would read six fingers 

 abdomen; good condition; pelvic bones 3 / 8 of an inch. By 

 consulting Chart 6, we will find this is a 205-egg type hen. 



Our next hen may be a six-finger-abdomen hen, in good 

 condition; J^-inch pelvic bones; this hen will be a 175-egg 

 type hen. 



Our next hen may be a six-finger-abdomen hen, in good 

 condition; pelvic bones 1 inch. We look on Chart 6, and 

 find that 1-inch pelvic bones indicate the 55-egg type hen. 



Our next hen may be a four-finger-abdomen hen ; she may 

 be two fingers out of condition, as in Fig. 21, and her pelvic 

 bones may be Vie of an inch thick. We would read her as 

 four fingers abdomen ; two fingers out of condition ; this would 



