The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-31
CHICKEN PHRENOL OGLST SHOWS HOW
TO DEVELOP HEN OF GOLDEN EGG
Bumps Reveal Egg-Laying
Secrets and Show Up
Useless Old Maids.
BY JACK JuEGMEYER.

PetalurDa, CAL. March Can you
recognize an old maid hen when you
see one?
IL you can. and have the heart to
convert her into fricasee. yoult he a
successful poultryman.
II not, you're probably being played
for a fool by lot Of feathered YAM
pires who drain your pocket instead of
| filling it.
There lies the whole secret Of gain
or loss in raising chickens.
And now comes the hen phrenolo-
| gist' with the assurance that anyone
| can determine exactly the character of
his feathercd seryitors BY studying
their bumps. anatomy and tempera-
ment.
Walter Hogan is the wizard who has
perfected the new science here In Peta-
| luna, city OF four million hens Hogan
who is to the world OF agriculture what
Burbank is to horticulture and Edison
to electricity.
| He has been studying chickens for
| G2 years and is today at 70 Americas
| foremost poultry authority.
| Hogan's system OF selecting and de
velopinG chickens. for eggs or flesh, II
! followed out generally, would within
n few years produce race of super
, hens laying from $50 to 800 eggs an
nually and. would revolutionize the egg
! industry.
This Is the claim made by govern
ment experts and university expert
ment stations that have observed the
amazing results achieved by the Peta-
| luna genius.
During the past year Hogan's system,
| followed by thousands of poultrymen
who have read his book the Call of
the Hen" has resulted In an estimated
saving of $5,000,000 to the nation by
elimination of chickens not worth their
| feed.
! ] came to Petaluna to get from this
remarkable old man some profitable
tips in adventure.
4 There are as many kinds of chick
ems as there are men," he began, as I
followed him from coop to incubator
and feeding pen to packing room on his
ranch.
Anyone can tell them apart--the
players from the layers, the slackers
from workers-by applying the science
of hen phrenology.
Every hen, every cockerel, adver-
tises its capacities, It's strong points
and weak ones, in It's anatomy.
Some chickens are born layers;
others never lay more than few eggs.
no matter how well cared for and how
bountifully fed Nature simply hasn't
destined them for motherhood.
How to distinguish the one from
the other. to develop and fix the pro-
ductive strain while eliminating the
| other--that has been the probern to
which | have devoted lifetime.
What it would mean to America to
develop a race of hens that consistently
laid over 200 eggs. where the average
now is probably below so, is readily
appreciated when It is remembered
that the egg industry in this country
was second only TO corn before the
war.
Il have after lifetime of painstak-
ing and costly experimenting. found the
secret ..-
-Four characteristics the hen must
possess for economical production Of
eggs or meat--capaeity, condition, type
and constitutional vigor.
| THE first is the abdominal space 10
consume and assimilate food necessary
to produce eggs or meat necessary to
make her paying proposition.
This is judged by the distance be-
tween the lower end Of the breast bone
and the pelvic bones.
when this distance is ample the hen
is almost invariably Il prolific layer, if
her condition aud type is good. When
it is small nature has advertised the
hen as essentially a non layer
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