88 THE CALL OF THE HEN. 
thick. You should feed the pen for eggs, and keep them as healthy as 
possible. If they are fed right, you will get lots of eggs and good, healthy 
chicks, capable of putting on flesh rapidly and fattening very easily. 
Asa paying proposition for market broilers I have never found any 
combination that would equal it. 
Fic. 52—The dry-mash hopper we use, open. 
But for my private use, without regard to profit, I would take the 
same combination as the above, except that the pelvic bones of the hens 
would be 1 inch thick, instead of about °/s; this would give a broiler 
that would put on flesh much faster, consequently it would be more 
tender. I have raised broilers the flesh of which would almost melt in 
your mouth. I have a few secrets in the raising of them which I have 
never divulged, but may do so in a few years. 
CHAPTER XV. 
UsING THE HoGAN TEsT IN JUDGING POULTRY AT THE POULTRY SHOWS. 
From the Live Stock Tribune, Los Angeles, California. 
(Now Pacific Poultrycraft.) 
“INGLEWOOD POULTRY SHOW. 
“A poultry show will be held in the Inglewood Poultry Colony on 
March 18th and 14th. This show will be the first of its kind ever given 
in the United States. All poultry shows that have been held in this 
country heretofore have awarded prizes according to the color, markings, 
and shape of the fowls only. The show at Englewood will be unusual 
in that prizes will be awarded irrespective of the color, variety, shape, 
size or age of the fowls in competition. 
“Birds in competition will be judged as to their egg-laying capacities 
and reproductive abilities only. The judging will be done by the system 
discovered and perfected by Walter Hogan and now used in practical 
poultry-raising by the members of the Inglewood Poultry Colony. 
