. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. thingto be done is to place it in a perfectly hori-zontal position, and then tf) study and com-prehend its arrangement and subdi\isions. Ifwe open the door that closes the hatchingchamber, we see that the interior is separatedinto two divisions by a horizontal jxartition,which can be removed in several pieces. Inthese drawers, as they are called, the eggs areplaced, and beneath themis the drying compartmentfor the chicks. Thesedrawers are movable, andare easily opened when theeggs have to be do not come close tothe


. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. thingto be done is to place it in a perfectly hori-zontal position, and then tf) study and com-prehend its arrangement and subdi\isions. Ifwe open the door that closes the hatchingchamber, we see that the interior is separatedinto two divisions by a horizontal jxartition,which can be removed in several pieces. Inthese drawers, as they are called, the eggs areplaced, and beneath themis the drying compartmentfor the chicks. Thesedrawers are movable, andare easily opened when theeggs have to be do not come close tothe door, and through thespace thus left the chicksdrop easily into the dryingplace after leaving theshells. In constructing the in-cubator the aim has beento put the eggs under thesame conditions as obtainunder the mothers brooding wings. In thelatter case the egg takes the temperature of It would ha\e been easy enough, by the help ofthick partitions, to keep up a minimum of heatand an even temperature, but in that case theeggs would have been deprived of necessary.


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