. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. pparatus is now regardedas a necessary object which oughtto be in all farm and poultry yards 228 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS as much as any other modern instrument ofhusbandry. The fact that Europe, especiallythe Netherlands, is importing, for the im-provement of its breeds, American fowls,— the Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, etc., —proves that poultry incubated artificially doesnot yield in any manner to poultry hatchednaturally. Where shall we find, except in theUnited States, hens able to hatch, on an aver-age, one hundred and eighty
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness;. pparatus is now regardedas a necessary object which oughtto be in all farm and poultry yards 228 OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS as much as any other modern instrument ofhusbandry. The fact that Europe, especiallythe Netherlands, is importing, for the im-provement of its breeds, American fowls,— the Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, etc., —proves that poultry incubated artificially doesnot yield in any manner to poultry hatchednaturally. Where shall we find, except in theUnited States, hens able to hatch, on an aver-age, one hundred and eighty eggs a year .? Do eggs the hen will give us fifty chickens, whilethe machine will give from eighty to , however, are often made of in-ferior machines, and justly. Persons are led tobuy incubators without any knowledge of theirvalue, and are often deceived. But what infer-ence can be drawn from that .■ Neverthelessthose who have thus been victimized remainever after the adversaries of artificial incu-bation. If they had been better informed. Incubators the large, solid Wyandotte and Plymouth Rockhens have a sickly exhausted air ? No, on thecontrary they are robust animals, capable ofresisting the effects of all climates. We base these remarks on our own experi-ence, which leads us to declare conscientiouslythat neither natural nor artificial incubation hasany distinct or special influence under normalcircumstances. With eggs well fertilized agood hen will produce good chickens. A goodmachine, well managed, will give the same andeven better results, for out of one hundred or had consulted experienced breeders, theycould have obtained good results and beenpartisans, not adversaries, of this useful inven-tion, without which the raising of poultry couldnever have attained its present could never in this country have gone sofar in raising poultry if we had not made useof the artificial incubator. A good incubator having been purchased,the next t
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