THE CALL OF THE HEN. 91 
The breeder need not take my word for the above statements. 
The frontispiece shows five of this type of birds that the writer bred 
and raised in California. These birds laid the greatest weight of eggs 
(131 pens of five birds to each pen competing, including three pens of 
Indian Runner ducks) in the National Egg-laying Contest at the State 
Poultry Experiment Station, Mountain Grove, Missouri, U. S. A., for 
the twelve months ending November 1, 1912. These five hens laid 131 
pounds of eggs, which, reduced to No. 1 eggs as rated in Petaluma, 
would be 229/, eggs for each hen. The eggs these five hens laid while 
moulting were put on exhibition in the Chamber of Commerce in Petaluma 
and were pronounced by good judges to be as fine a lot of eggs as they 
ever saw, and that is saying a great deal, as there are more eggs produced 
within a radius of ten miles from Petaluma than in any other like part 
of the world. Wehave hundreds of letters from our customers testifying 
to the value of this stock, a few extracts from which we will introduce here 
to prove to the reader that because a flock of hens are great layers it 
does not follow that they are of low vitality. 
EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS. 
PORTLAND, ORE., June 23, 1912. 
Received eggs. None broken. Very nice. Fifteen infertile out 
of 150. C. F. PERKINS. 
Linve, Hawatt, June 11, 1913. 
Eggs arrived O. K. None damaged. Have fourteen chicks four 
weeks old doing fine. Am well pleased. 
E. H. BROADBENT. 
(These eggs were shipped over 2,200 miles by rail and steamer to 
reach their destination). 
WATSONVILLE, CauiF., April 5, 1912. 
Eggs received. Finest we ever had. Got forty-nine strong chicks 
from sixty-four eggs. Ora L. HILt. 
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 18, 1912. 
The 100 eggs received. Express and customs ran price to $14.00. 
Am very well satisfied. Hatched 70 per cent beautiful chicks; doing 
well. G. W. McLELLAnD. 
Quincy, Wasu., April 14, 1912. 
Chicks received; not a dead one in the bunch, which speaks well 
for the vitality of your stock. 
H. L. Jounson, Treasurer 
and Manager Quincy Lumber Company. 
VicroriA, B. C., Sub. P. O. No. 1, 
April 19, 1912. 
Received the 100 chicks; four dead. Think that is very good, coming 
that journey. James D. WEstT. 
