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diseased organs. Sometimes a hen will have a large abdomen 

 but her pelvic bones will grow crooked and come almost to- 

 gether, like the horns of a Jersey cow and she will lay better 

 than the distance apart of her pelvic bones will indicate but 

 never will do as well as she should and should not be bred 

 from. She wastes too much nervous force in laying. The farth- 

 er you get away from the crow formation the better your hens 

 will be. 



As a rule fowls are almost twice as long coming to matur- 

 ity in California as they are in the east and middle west states. 

 Wnat the reason is I suspect but do not know, but will find out 

 in the next two years. 



No document purporting to be a copy of Walter Hogan's 

 System is genuine without my signature as is set hereunder: 

 Wishing you the best of success, I am sincerely yours, 



THE WALTER HOGAN SYSTEM OF INCREASING EGG 

 PRODUCTION BY SELECTION AND BREEDING. 



It has been estimated that to add one-half dozen eggs to 

 the annual producing capacity of every hen in the United 

 States, would result in additional returns from our poultry 

 sufficient to pay the national debt within less than a year. Al- 

 lowing this to be true, we are prepared to show that the method 

 of selection and breeding herein outlined, is capable of paying 

 off our great debt several times during a single year, without 

 having to increase the number of hens kept a single bird, or the 

 cost of keeping them a single dollar. 



The method or discovery, we might call it has been 

 tested by the writer in every conceivable way, regardless of 

 expense, time or trouble, and has been found absolutly faultless 

 in every particular. It has been submitted to one government 

 Experiment Station (as will be shown later) with the same un- 

 erring results; and also to a number of the foremost poultry- 

 men of America, who fully and without exception corroborate 

 all that is claimed. 



This, you will agree with us, means a revolution in 

 economical egg production. It means, too, that no poultry- 



