. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 254 POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 281. Stone incubator house on plant of E. O. Damon, Hanover, Massachusetts but considering such points in their general relation to his work, the poultry keeper will find that he cannot afford to leave undone anything that it is in his power to do in order to hatch, at the most favorable season, the young stock that he needs. Special emphasis has been laid upon this point, because economy of attention which amounts to neg- lect of incubators is the great stumblingblock of the small operator. Selection of an incub
. Principles and practice of poultry culture . Poultry. 254 POULTRY CULTURE. Fig. 281. Stone incubator house on plant of E. O. Damon, Hanover, Massachusetts but considering such points in their general relation to his work, the poultry keeper will find that he cannot afford to leave undone anything that it is in his power to do in order to hatch, at the most favorable season, the young stock that he needs. Special emphasis has been laid upon this point, because economy of attention which amounts to neg- lect of incubators is the great stumblingblock of the small operator. Selection of an incubator. The choice of an incubator is a less important matter than is com- monly supposed. Although there are manufactured in America over a hundred differently named incubators, most of them are imi- tations of popular machines, the imitation being sometimes infe- rior in construction or different in some particular, but as often equal to, and occasionally an im- provement on, the model. It is notorious that some of the best- known incubators on the market are substantially identical and as nearly equal as may be in hatch- ing results, the differences in hatches of machines of different makes being no more noticeable than differences in hatches from machines of the same make. It is not unusual to find poultrymen in the same locality preferring dif- FiG. 283. Laboratory building at Massa- ferent machines. Even men oper- chusetts Agricultural Colleere. Incu- . ^, .,, ^, bator room in cellar. (Photograph from ^tmg m the same rOOm, With the the college) Same eggs, may not agree in their. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Robinson, John H. (John Henry), 1863-1935. Boston ; New York : Ginn and Company
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