. Artificial incubation and incubators ... pment. CHINESE HATCHING BASKETS. Another traveler describes what he saw as follows:The hatching house was built at the end of the cottage, andwas a kind of long shed, with mud walls thickly thatched with CHINESE HATCHING BASKETS. 63 straw. Along the ends and down one side of the building were anumber of round straw baskets, well plastered with mud to pre-vent them from taking fire. In the bottom of each basket therewas a tile placed, or rather the tile forms the bottom of the this the fire acts—a small fireplace being below each
. Artificial incubation and incubators ... pment. CHINESE HATCHING BASKETS. Another traveler describes what he saw as follows:The hatching house was built at the end of the cottage, andwas a kind of long shed, with mud walls thickly thatched with CHINESE HATCHING BASKETS. 63 straw. Along the ends and down one side of the building were anumber of round straw baskets, well plastered with mud to pre-vent them from taking fire. In the bottom of each basket therewas a tile placed, or rather the tile forms the bottom of the this the fire acts—a small fireplace being below each the top of each basket there is a straw cover, which fitsclosely, and which is kept shut while the process is going on. Inthe centre of the shed are a number of large shelves placed oneabove another, upon which the eggs are laid at a certain stage ofthe process. When the eggs are brought they are put into thebaskets, the fire is lighted below them, and a uniform heat keptup, ranging, as nearly as I could ascertain by some observations. -W-& Fig. 48.—bonnemains I made with the thermometer, from ninety-five to one hun-dred and two degrees—but the Chinamen regulate the heat bytheir own feelings, and therefore it will, of course, vary consider-ably. In four or five days after the eggs have been subject to thistemperature they are taken carefully out to a door, in which-anumber of holes have been bored nearly the size of the eggs; theyare then held one by one against these holes, and the Chinamenlook through them, and are able to tell whether they are good ornot. If good, they are taken back and replaced in their formerquarters; if bad, they are of course excluded. In nine or ten daysafter this—that is, about fourteen days from the commencement—the eggs are taken from the basket and spread out on the no fire heat is applied, but they are covered over with cot-ton, and a kind of blanket, under which they remain about four-teen days more—whe
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