THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



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objections and criticisms, which will occur to many readers, 

 had to be answered or met by actual practical experiences. 

 The method enables one: 



1. To easily and without error weed out all the worthless 

 birds from a flock; those that do not lay at all, also those that 

 lay so little that it is a loss to keep them. This alone means 

 millions to this country. 



2. To separate just as unerringly all pullets before they 

 begin to lay; indicating the coming great layers, the fair 

 layers, the very poor, and the barren. The latter will be 

 found in nearly all flocks. 



3 To tell those not liable to lay when disposing of old or 

 other hens for the table or market or for other reasons. 



Beginning my investigation, as I was compelled to, with 

 birds selected wholly without egg- record, I was soon greatly 

 impressed with the dissimilarity of formation of the pelvic 



CUT No. 3 Hens with this development are of little or no 

 value as layers. 



