. The call of the hen; or, The science of the selection and breeding of poultry. Poultry. THE CALL OF the' HEN. ng the 100 hens for the entire time was: First pen, 60 per cent, per day; second pen, 37; third pen nothing. But for lack of room, I might give many more experiments and tests fully as startling as the above. But to go on; within two years after selecting my first layers in this wav, I had a flock, the larger part of which was. Cut No. 4.—Showing a Convenient Method of Holding Fowls When Testing Them. laying 200 eggs and above per year, individual layers greatly exceeding this. Then
. The call of the hen; or, The science of the selection and breeding of poultry. Poultry. THE CALL OF the' HEN. ng the 100 hens for the entire time was: First pen, 60 per cent, per day; second pen, 37; third pen nothing. But for lack of room, I might give many more experiments and tests fully as startling as the above. But to go on; within two years after selecting my first layers in this wav, I had a flock, the larger part of which was. Cut No. 4.—Showing a Convenient Method of Holding Fowls When Testing Them. laying 200 eggs and above per year, individual layers greatly exceeding this. Then came another discovery, fully as important as the first. I noticed that, though I hatched all my pullets from the best layers' eggs, some of them were exceedingly poor layers, now and then one of them barren. I studied upon this for a long time; spent more money and killed many more birds. Then with another idea which, as suddenly as the first dawned upon me. I made for the slaughter house once more. I soon had a row of forty or so dressed male birds this time, laid out before me; and then at a glance I saw my long sought solution. There was the same great difference in the pelvic formation, found in the hens. I examined my roosters to find that half of them were absolutely worthless. Why do I say that the rooster *'is MORE than half the flock?" Because later I found, as. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hogan, Walter, d. 1921. Petaluma, Cal. , The Petaluma Daily Courier
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