. The call of the hen; or, The science of the selection and breeding of the poultry for egg-production. s with this development are of little or no valueas layers. 128 THE CALL OF THE HEN. together at the points and unyielding to pressure, hard, thick,and rounded in. This experiment was tried again and again,with different breeds, but never with different results. I was satisfied I was on the right trail now, and determinedto spare neither time nor money to make sure I was right. Forseveral years following these discoveries I spent much time andmoney visiting well-known poultrymen and others,
. The call of the hen; or, The science of the selection and breeding of the poultry for egg-production. s with this development are of little or no valueas layers. 128 THE CALL OF THE HEN. together at the points and unyielding to pressure, hard, thick,and rounded in. This experiment was tried again and again,with different breeds, but never with different results. I was satisfied I was on the right trail now, and determinedto spare neither time nor money to make sure I was right. Forseveral years following these discoveries I spent much time andmoney visiting well-known poultrymen and others, frequentlypaying as high as $ for best known layers, only to killthem to prove or disprove my conclusions—to photograph thelive bird, next her dressed body, then her skeleton. In everyinstance I found my theory corrert. I divided my own flockaccording to my findings into three flocks, and the very firstdays lay proved my theory beyond question, so far as one daycould. I then divided other and many flocks; but whereverthey were and whatever breed, without an exception the sameresult Cut No. 4—Showing a convenient method of holding fowls whentesting them. Skipping a number of years, I might say right here that in1904 I divided the flock of Leghorns, Wyandottes, and Ply-mouth Rocks at the Minnesota Experiment Station at Crooks-ton into three pens: first, the best; second, medium to poor;third, very poor or barren. I was about twenty-five minutesdoing this in the presence of C. S. Greene, at that time the THE CALL OF THE HEN. 129 manager, whom nearly all the leading poultrymen know, andMr. T. A. Hoverstad, then superintendent of the gentlemen then had absolutely no faith in the method!not knowing anything about it; but were assured l)y me that ifthe barren pen laid an egg or either of the others failed to per-form as I indicated, they were at liberty to publish the methodand me to the world as a fraud. The first day showed pen , 45 eggs; pen No
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