The art of incubation and brooding; . Fig. 15. Fig. 15 shows the opposite side of Fig. 14. Ashould correspond with the name of the party oryard which furnished the eggs ; S indicates a thickshell. If the letter T were substituted it wouldindicate a thin shell. We have said in another place that the differentshells require different treatment to obtain the bestresults. You will notice that while, as a rule, darkshells are thicker than white ones, you will findsome thin shells among the dark ones and somethick shells among the white ?^^e^^- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.^&&&&&&&&&&&&<&&&

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The art of incubation and brooding; . Fig. 15. Fig. 15 shows the opposite side of Fig. 14. Ashould correspond with the name of the party oryard which furnished the eggs ; S indicates a thickshell. If the letter T were substituted it wouldindicate a thin shell. We have said in another place that the differentshells require different treatment to obtain the bestresults. You will notice that while, as a rule, darkshells are thicker than white ones, you will findsome thin shells among the dark ones and somethick shells among the white ?^^e^^- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.^&&&&&&&&&&&&<&&<£&&&£&&&&&&&&&&&&&«fc^. Fig. 16. Fig. 16 shows a different egg marked on thesame plan of Fig. 14. 2-28 indicates that the eggwas set on 28th day of 2d month (February 28th) ;3-20 that it is due to hatch on 20th day of 3dmonth (March 20th) ; D a doubtful or weakly fer-tilized egg when first tested on 5th or 6th day ; Wthat it has been tested on 10th day ; 8 that the airspace on 10th day corresponds with that shown inFig 8.

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