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THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



Fig. 9. After examining the hen as in Fig. 8, place the 

 hand as in Fig. 9, and hold right hand firmly enough ro pre- 

 vent her from slipping down. 



Fig. 10, then, move the left hand down as in Fig. 10, and 

 hold left hand iirin enough to keep her in place while removing 

 right hand. 



TYPE 



Fig. 11. Now brush feathers away from vent with back 

 of hand and grasp end of pelvic bone so that it comes flush 

 with outside of ringers as in Fig 11. This indicates the Type 

 of the bird. Some will be one-sixteenth (1-16) of an inch thick 



Figure 11. Shows Method of Testing Type. 



including the flank as held between the thumb and fore-finger 

 as seen in Fig. 11 and will vary all the way up to one ?and a 

 quarter ( 1 1-4) inches, including bone, gristle, fat and flank as 

 seen in Fig. 31. 



The reader is aware by this time that we are in the chapter 

 pertaining to Type, the last of the three classes that is neces- 

 sary to divide poultry into in order to make a scientific class- 



