THE CALL OF THE HEN. Ill 



"WALTER HOGAN CAN RAISE CHICKENS. 



"Walter Hogan backs up his system of selecting the good 

 layers from among the poor ones, but he has never made 

 much fuss about his ability as a poultry-raiser. For that 

 reason some people have absorbed the idea that he is more of 

 a theorist than a practical man. But he now has a flock of 

 his own, and evidently he is making good, for he is getting 

 results that will convince any one from Missouri or anywhere 

 else who must be 'shown' before believing. For instance, 

 last week there was a spell of most discouraging depression 

 in the prices which dealers were willing to pay for young 

 poultry. There were large arrivals of Eastern poultry in 

 San Francisco besides heavy receipts of California, and no- 

 body wanted any more. Just the same, Mr. Hogan received 

 $4.00 a dozen for sixteen dozen cockerels just three months 

 old, when the same dealer was paying but $1.50 for birds 

 of the same age. Now, what do you think of that? And 

 Mr. Hogan says these cockerels were not descendants of the 

 beef type of hens, but were hatched from eggs laid by hens 

 selected as the egg type. They were not especially fed or 

 in any way prepared for market. They cost 22 cents each 

 for feed, and thus the profit on the bunch was $21.76. 



"In speaking of this matter, Mr. Hogan made the point 

 that if all poultrymen would pay especial attention to pro- 

 ducing fine broilers for market that is, in preparing the 

 broilers that they are obliged to produce in order to have a 

 corresponding number of pullets they would benefit them- 

 selves greatly. Not only would they get a better price for 

 the birds, but they would greatly increase the demand, as 

 many people who now care nothing for the common dry- 

 meated birds would become pleased consumers of the improved 

 broilers. The Poultry Journal man knows by personal ex- 

 perience that the broilers turned out by Mr. Hogan are simply 

 delicious when properly cooked, and far ahead of the ordinary 

 article." 



