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pelvic bones as in Fig. 24. She would read three fingers abdomen; 
in good condition '/,.-inch pelvic bone. We look on Chart 3 at '/16~ 
inch pelvic bone, and find that this hen is a 180-egg type. 
CHART 3. 
. Three-finger Abdomen, 
1/1, pelvic bone........ .......0-- 180 eggs 
1/, pelvic bone.... ... ......--. 166 eggs 
3/1, pelvic bone..... ........--.5- 152. eggs 
1/4 pelvic bone....  ..........-.. 138 eggs 
5/15 pelvic bone............. ... .124 eggs 
§/, pelvic bone..... ... Palkide sats 110 eggs 
T/ys pelvic bone.... ... .... ... 96 eggs 
1/, pelvic bone..... Loe ee sa 82 eggs 
9/1, pelvic bone.......... ... ... 68 eggs 
5/, pelvic bone.......... ... .. 54 eggs 
1/15 pelvic bone...... ci. ee... 40 eggs 
3/, pelvic bone.. ... ... ... ... 26 eggs 
13/15 pelvic bone..... tees ee... 12 eggs ' 
T/,s pelvicbone.. ... ... .... .. O-eggs 
We will drop her and take another. She may be another three- 
finger-abdomen hen, like Fig. 14; she may be in good condition, like Fig. 
19, and her pelvic bone may be %-inch thick, like Fig. 28. She would 
read three fingers abdomen; good condition; 44-inch pelvic bone. We 
will look on Chart 3 at - inch pelvic bone, "and find this hen is an 82- 
egg type hen. 
We will take another hen. She may be a three-finger abdomen, 
like Fig. 14; she may be in good condition, like Fig. 19, and her pelvic 
bone may be 34 of an inch thick, as in Fig. 29. We will read her as a 
three-finger-abdomen hen; in good condition; 34-inch pelvic bone. We 
will look on Chart 3 at 34-inch pelvic bone, and find she is a 26-egg type 
hen. 
We will pick up another hen. She may be a three-finger capacity, 
as in Fig. 14; she may be three fingers out of condition, as in Fig. 22, 
and her pelvic bones may be !/1¢ of an inch thick, asin Fig. 24. We would 
read this hen as a three-finger abdomen; three fingers out of condition; 
and '/1e-inch pelvic bone. When a hen is three fingers out of condition 
she is in a serious way. She may have been sitting or laying heavily 
and have been underfed. In either case, good care and plenty of the 
right kind of feed will bring her back into condition, provided she has 
not contracted tuberculosis (going light) or some other wasting disease. 
I will cite two cases out of hundreds that have come under my obser- 
vation. 
One was a Barred Rock hen that I intended to set on duck eggs; 
she was six fingers abdomen, in good condition when I put her on the 
nest, and 1/1-inch pelvic bones; that indicated that she was a 235-egg 
type hen. She was on the nest two weeks before the duck eggs arrived 
and four weeks on the ducks eggs, making six weeks setting. Owing to 
stress of other work, and being confined in an out-of-the-way place, 
she was somewhat neglected, and when the ducklings were hatched she 
was three fingers abdomen and three fingers out of condition, thus 
