THE CALL OF THE HEN. 35 



iiication to enable one to arrive at the approximate value of 

 the "Individual Bird" as an Egg or as a Meat proposition, 

 (and without any regard as to its value as a breeder which 

 will be shown later). I wish to repeat here that Type is con- 

 trolled wholly by temperament. We must select the tempera- 

 ment or combinations of temperaments that suit our purpose 

 and then with the desired capacity and by scientific feeding so 

 as to keep the subject in proper condition, poultry culture will 

 become more of a science with the majority of poultrymen 

 than it is at present. In order to prepare the reader for what 

 is to follow, I will divide poultry into three distinct classes, as 

 to temperaments. 



First the hen that will produce the largest amount of 

 eggs with the smallest amount of meat possible for her capac- 

 ity is of the nervous temperament. The hen which uses one 

 half of her vitality in producing eggs, and the other half of her 

 vitality in producing meat, in other words, the dual purpose 

 hen, is a combination of both the sanguine and bilious temper- 

 aments and is called the hen with the sanguine-bilious-temper- 

 ament. 



The hen who produces the largest amount of flesh and 

 the smallest amount of eggs, consistent with her capacity is 

 of the lymphatic temperament. In a fowl all the different tem- 

 peraments and their different degrees of combinations are indi- 

 cated by the Pelvic Bones. In the horse they are indicated 

 largely by the breed. The Arabian, the ideal running and trot- 

 ting horse is a good type of the nervous temperament. The 

 coach horse, of the sanguine-bilious temperament, and the 

 Clyde is *i good type of the lymphatic temperament. 



In cattle we have a good example of the nervous tempera- 

 ment in the Jersey, and of the lymphatic in the beef family of 

 Durham, also Hereford and Polled Angus ; while the Holstein 

 and Ayrshire cattle are good types of the sanguine-bilious 

 combined. I have made this deviation so I could offer to my 

 poultry friends this thought, that there are certain laws in 

 nature that have no regard for our theories and the better we 

 understand these laws, the less liable we are to make mis- 

 takes. 



