. The call of the hen; or, The science of the selection and breeding of poultry. Poultry. THE CALL OF THE HEN. 65 SO why not the reproductive function? I reasoned that as I had mated up several pens of the same type of hens with the same type of male birds and that as there was no difference in their temperaments that the hens all looked alike all weighed alike, and were aij in the same condition or in other words they were all m poifect condition, (to be more exp'.icii ihe hens were tivee hngeis abdomen, pelvic bone 1-15 of an inch thick all hens were in good condition, the cock bn "!? v
. The call of the hen; or, The science of the selection and breeding of poultry. Poultry. THE CALL OF THE HEN. 65 SO why not the reproductive function? I reasoned that as I had mated up several pens of the same type of hens with the same type of male birds and that as there was no difference in their temperaments that the hens all looked alike all weighed alike, and were aij in the same condition or in other words they were all m poifect condition, (to be more exp'.icii ihe hens were tivee hngeis abdomen, pelvic bone 1-15 of an inch thick all hens were in good condition, the cock bn "!? v\^ere two iing-ers abdomen, in nornic^l condition and pelvic bunes 1-16 of an inch thick, all hens were alike and all cock birds were alike and all were oLout a year old)—that there must me something apart from the anatomy and physiology of the hen that gov- erned or in some measure controlled the reproductive funcj; tions. As I had exhausted all my resources in the above lines I was very reluctantly obliged to enter a new! field of re- search—the field of Phrenology. I killed the cock birds that h-id'given us the best results, boiled their skulls until free of flesh and found them as in No 1, Plate 35. The skulls of the cock birds that gave the next best results were like No. 2,. Plate 35.^-Three Degrees of Amativeness. (Otherwise Called Prepotenqy^). 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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