THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



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h"d given us the best results, boiled their skulls until free of 

 flesh and found them as in No 1, Plate 35. The skulls of the. 

 cock birds that gave the next best results were like No. 2,. 

 Plate 35, and the skulls of the cock birds that ^ave the poor- 



Plate 35. Three Degrees of Amativeness. (Otherwise Called Prepotency.) 



est results were like No. 3, Plate 35. The arrows 4-5 and 6, 

 show the base of the brain but the arrow at No. 6 should be 

 1-16 of an inch further back to be correct. And right here is 

 where we were on the point of the second great 

 secret in breeding that would verify the saying that 

 like begets like. T/he first discovery was, that if we 

 wished to raise pullets that would be good layers we would 

 have to mate good laying hens with the same type of male 

 bird and not with the meat type, that is the male birds would 

 have to be of the same temperament, of the same anatomy 

 and of the same physiology as the hen. I found that if I had a 

 hen that laid 180 eggs by the trap-nest and if I wanted to 

 raise a lot of pullets that would average 180 eggs 1 could not 

 depend on the trap nest to aid me any farther than to tell me 



