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must, therefore, read her as a two-finger abdomen hen, !/16-inch pelvic 
bone, when, by looking on Chart 2, we find her capacity would be 96 
eggs her first laying year, if we kept her in condition. 
We will drop her, and take another hen out of the crate. This 
hen may be a one-finger abdomen hen, as in Fig. 12. When we examine 
her for condition, we find her as in Fig. 21; this indicates that she is 
two fingers out of condition; her pelvic bone may be '/15 of an inch. 
Under her present condition, she might lay 36 eggs her first laying year, 
whereas, if she were kept in good condition, she would have a three- 
finger abdomen. She might lay 180 eggs. 
We will drop this hen and take up another one. She may be two 
fingers abdomen and her breast-bone may be as in Fig. 19. Her pelvic 
bone may be 1/15 of an inch. We would read her as a two-finger-ab- 
domen hen in good condition, pelvic bones !/15 of an inch thick. We 
will look on Chart 2 at */1¢-inch pelvic bone, and find she is a 96-egg 
type hen. 
We will drop her and take another from the crate. She may be 
two fingers abdomen and two fingers out of condition, as in Fig. 21, 
with pelvic bones 14 of. an inch thick. She would read two fingers 
abdomen and two fingers out of condition. She would be four fingers 
CHART 2. 
Two-finger Abdomen, 
1/1, pelvic bone.........--....0000 96 eggs 
1/, pelvic bone.................... 87 eggs 
3/15 pelvic bone...................-. 78 eggs 
1/, pelvic bone............ 22... 69 eggs 
5/15 pelvic bone....... er ee 60 eggs 
3/, pelvic bone............ 0... 51 eggs 
7/1 pelvic bone....... both Eh roc mcs 42 eggs 
'/s pelvic bone........... Lo... 83 eggs 
9/16 pelvic bone........... wo. we. 4 eggs 
5/, pelvic bone........... wo. oe.) eggs 
Ug PEI DOME ii. 5o0i00's a ees .... 6 eggs 
8/4 pelvic bone...... ............ 0 eggs 
abdomen if in condition, and 14-inch pelvic bones. Being a four-finger- 
abdomen hen (if in condition), we will look on Chart 4 at 14-inch pelvic 
bone, and find she is a 175-egg type hen. We will drop her. 
Take another. She may be a two-finger-abdomen hen, as in Fig. 
13, in good condition, as in Fig. 19, with pelvic bones 34 of an inch 
thick, as in Fig. 29. She would read two fingers abdomen good condi- 
tion 34-inch pelvic bones. We will look on Chart 2 for 34-inch pelvic 
bone, and find this hen will lay nothing. This does not mean that she 
is an absolutely barren hen, that she will never lay an egg (I will explain 
this when we get to the six-finger-abdomen hen)’ she may lay a few, 
perhaps half a dozen, in the spring when the crows lay; but as a com- 
mercial proposition she will have no more value than the hen that never 
laid an egg. Everything she consumes goes to the making of flesh, 
except’ what she uses in bodily maintenance. 
We will drop her and take another. She may be a three-finger- 
abdomen hen, as in Fig. 14. Her condition may be as in Fig. 19, with 
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