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tion. She would be four fingers abdomen if in condition and 

 1-4 Pelvic Bones. Being a four fingered hen (if in 

 condition), we will look on No. 4 Chart, at 1-4 Pelvic Bones 

 and find she is a 175 egg type hen. We will drop her. 



Take another. She may be a two fingered abdomen hen as 

 in Fig. 13, in good condition as in Fig. 19, with Pelvic Bones 

 3-4 of an inch thick, as n Fig. 29. She would read two finger 

 abdomen, good condition, 3-4 of an inch Pelvic Bones. We 

 will look on Chart No. 2 to 3-4 Pelvic Bones and find this hen 

 will lay nothing. This does not mean that she is an obsolutely 

 barren hen, that she will never lay an egg, (I will expl'ain this 

 when we get to the six finger abdomen hen). She may lay a 

 few, perhaps half a dozen, in the spring, when the crows lay 

 but as a commercial proposition, she Will have no more value 

 than the hen that never laid an egg. Everything she con- 

 sumes, goes to the making of flesh except what she uses in 

 bodily maintenance. We will drop her and take another. She 

 may be a three finger abdomen hen as in Fig. 14. Her condi- 

 tion may be as in Fig. 19, with Pelvic Bones as in Fig. 24. She 



CHART 3. 



Three Fingers Abdomen. 



1-16 pelvic bone 180 eggs 



1-8 pelvic bone 166 eggs 



3-16 pelvic bone 152 eggs 



1-4 pelvic bone 138 eggs 



5-16 pelvic bone 124 eggs 



3-8 pelvic bone 110 eggs 



7-16 pelvic bone 96 eggs 



1-2 pelvic bone 82 eggs 



9-16 pelvic bone 68 eggs 



5-8 pelvic bone 54 eggs 



11-16 pelvic bone 40 eggs 



3-4 pelvic bone 26 eggs 



13-16 pelvic bone 12 eggs 



7-8 pelvic bone .. eggs 



would read three finger abdomen, in good condition, 1-16 

 (one sixteenth) Pelvic Bone. We look on No. 3 chart at 1-16 

 Pelvic Bone and find that this hen is a 180 egg type. 



