18 THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



No. 1 of the typical egg type hen may lay about 36 eggs. 



No. 2 may lay about 96 eggs. 



No. 3 may lay about 180 eggs. 



No. 4 may lay about 220 eggs. 



No. 5 may lay about 250 eggs. 



No. 6 may lay about 280 eggs. 



All this is in their first laying year. 



No. 1 of the dual purpose type hen may Uy aoout 20 eggs. 



No 2 may lay about 50 eggs. 



No. 3 may lay about 96 eggs. 



No. 4 may lay about 115 eggs. 



No. 5 may lay about 130 eggs. 



No. 6 may lay about 145 eggs. 



The first laying year. 



No 1 of the typical meat type may lay from nothing to 

 a dozen eggs. No 2, 3 4, 5 and 6 may lay from nothing to a 

 couple of dozen eggs, and as a rule will lay these in the spring 

 when the crows lay. The reason is very plain if we stop to 

 think that the same natural laws govern all animal (and 

 human) nature. 



The egg type nen is of a nervous temperament. (That 

 is why she is usally free from body lice if she has a suitable 

 place to dust in), and all she eats over bodily maintenance 

 goes to the production of eggs. The hen of the sangunine 

 temperament is a little more beefy and lays less eggs. The 

 hen of the bilious temperament is more beefy still and lays 

 still less eggs, while the hen of the lymphatic temperament 

 will lay little or nothing, almost everything she eats going to 

 flesh and fat. (The reader need borrow no trouble over the 

 meaning of the terms, nervous, sanguine, billious and lym- 

 phatic temperaments if he is not familiar with them, as the 

 charts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 will specify matters so that anyone can 

 understand the matter of selecting the different grades of 

 hens with very little study and trouble.) 



We have said that we have divided the three gracies, the 

 egg type, dual purpose type, and meat type, into six separate 

 classes. There is, in fact, a seventh class, but it is so rare that 

 we will not take it into consideration here, but will explain 

 it later. But we have, in fact, made 90 classes of these six 



