THE CALL OF THE HEN. 



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I was satisfied I was on the right trail now, and determined 

 to spare neither time nor money to make sure I was right. For 

 several years following these discoveries I spent much time and 

 money visiting well known poultrymen and others, frequently 

 paying as high as $10 for best known layers only to kill them to- 



Cut No. 3. Hens With this Development are of Little or 

 No Value as Layers. 



prove or disprove my conclusions to photograph the live bird, 

 next her dressed body, then her skeleton. In every instance I 

 found my theory correct. I divided my own flock according to 

 my findings into three flocks, and the very first day's lay proved 

 my theory beyond question, so far as one day could. I then 

 divided other and many flocks ; but wherever they were and 

 whatever breed, without an exception the same result followed. 



Skipping a number of years, I might say right here that in 

 1904, I divided the flock of Leghorns, Wyandottes and Ply- 

 mouth Rocks at the Minnesota Experiment Station at Crooks- 

 ton, into three pens. First the best; second medium to 

 poor; third very poor or barren. I was about twenty-five 



