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THE CALL OP THE HEN. 



CHAPTER VI. 

 TYPE. 



We now come to "Type/' This in indicated by the thick- 

 ness of the "Pelvic Bones" together with the flesh, fat gristle 

 and cartilage on same. (See page 17.) 



Figure 24. 1-16 Inch Pelvic Bone. 



Fig. 24, shows a hen whose Pelvic Bones are 1-16, (one- 

 sixteenth of an inch thick) that is about as thick as a piece of 

 cardboard that paper boxes anr made of and the reader must 

 bear in mind that the measurement of the Pelvic Bones does not 

 mean the bone alone with the skin, flesh, gristle and fat scrap- 

 ed off, as some may suppose, but with all the above included 



Figure 25. 1-8 Inch Pelvic Bone. 



