108 THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



Reno, Nevada, 3-11-13. 



"Chicks came through fine, one dead in seven hundred, 

 which speaks well for their vitality. They surely are a spry 

 bunch." A. L. Rice. 



Reno, Nevada, 7-22-13. 



"Chicks are fine. They are the largest and best looking 

 ever seen in Nevada. They are just four months and twelve 

 days old. One of them laid yesterday. Every poultryman 

 that sees them remarks it's too bad I haven't a thousand." 



A. L. Rice. 



The above extracts are taken from a few of the many un- 

 solicited letters I have received from my customers during the 

 last two years that I have been selling hatching eggs and day 

 old chicks. I have repeatedly shipped hatching eggs to the 

 Hawaiian Islands and as far east as Minnesota: and day old 

 chicks where they would be over 72 hours on the road. Last 

 season I turned down over six thousand dollars worth of orders 

 that I could not fill at $10 per 100 for eggs and $15.00 per 100 

 for day old chicks. 1 am aware I will have a hard time convinc- 

 ing some of my readers that what I claim for the 200 egg hen 

 is true, but it seems to me any progressive poultryman would 

 be satisfied with the proof I offer him. I will admit that the 

 eggs and chicks from the 200 egg type hens as now bred are 

 not all we would desire, but that is owing to lack of proper 

 knowledge of breeding. As I have said before, by using the 

 "Hogan Test" the reader can breed as fine or as coarse as his 

 conditions require; and by selecting only those birds with 

 large prepotency he will be assured of success. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

 "AT SEA OVER MATING." 



What shall it be; The Trap Nest, Mendelism or the Hogan 

 Test? 



From The North American, Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 24, 1912. 



"At Sea Over Mating." 

 America has some good layers, unheard of and unknown, 



