114 THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



This Chapter relates wholly to the system published by 

 Walter Hogan, November 20, 1904. A friend to whom I had 

 confided my poultry secrets some years previous advised me 

 not to publish any more of them then than are contained 

 in the following Chapter. Saying that I was a hundred years 

 ahead of the times, and if I gave all my secrets away then I 

 would have nothing to fall back on later. We have added the 

 old System, contained in this Chapter at the request of our 

 friends so the readers could compare it with the new one, en- 

 titled "The Call of the Hen." 



This chapter contains "Walter Hogan's System" as the 

 writer wrote it. I did not write "The Walter Hogan System 

 of Increasing Egg Production by Selection and Breeding." I 

 furnished the notes to a literary gentleman and he wrote it 

 without strict regard to the text. But I admit that I wrote 

 the "'Call of the Hen" and as I claim no literary accomplish- 

 ments the reader will no doubt discover the difference in the 

 work. The 'Walter Hogan System' was sold under" Promise of 

 Secrecy which is declared null and void on the issuance of this 

 book. 

 Petaluma, Calif., July 31, 1913. 



Signed: WALTER HOGAN, 



