How to hatch, brood, feed and prevent chicks from dying in the shell . lso the large numberof eggs used in the arts. In the face of a great array of figures and facts,let the poultry business have its proper place, for it is the rival of anyother. Cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and even wheat are falling to the rearof poultry. Recipe for Keeping Eggs To every three gallons of water add one pound of fresh slacked limeand one-half pint of salt. Have it well dissolved, drop in your eggs one ata time, but, mind, do not crack them. If you wish to keep them eightmonths or a year, you can do so, but y
How to hatch, brood, feed and prevent chicks from dying in the shell . lso the large numberof eggs used in the arts. In the face of a great array of figures and facts,let the poultry business have its proper place, for it is the rival of anyother. Cattle, horses, sheep, swine, and even wheat are falling to the rearof poultry. Recipe for Keeping Eggs To every three gallons of water add one pound of fresh slacked limeand one-half pint of salt. Have it well dissolved, drop in your eggs one ata time, but, mind, do not crack them. If you wish to keep them eightmonths or a year, you can do so, but you must use them or sell them assoon as taken out of the water, or they will spoil. When you have put inall you wish, take a thin piece of board and place on top of the eggs. Besure they are all under the brine. Then cover the board with salt. Nowplace them in a cool cellar. Your eggs must be strictly fresh. It wouldbe well to test them to make sure. This is a good way to keep eggs forwinters high prices. 32 HOW TO HATCH, BROOD, FEED AND PREVENT A Talk on Incubators. T rRYING to save a few dollars on thefirst cost of an incubator often re-sults in a very large additionalcost through failure on the part of theseso-called cheap machines to hatch morethan half of the eggs, and when the eggsare worth more than the machine, as istrue in many cases, the spoiling of ten ortwelve dollars worth of eggs for the sakeof saving two or three dollars on the firstcost of an incubator is, to say the least, very doubtful economy. Neverbuy an incubator just because it is cheap; it will cause you lots of grief andmany disappointments. Never buy a hot-air machine; it demands too muchattention and care. In an incubator the heat is the life. Chilling the eggsmeans killing the germ and destroying the embryo chick. In a hot-airincubator the heat runs up too quickly and also runs down in the sameway. If the lamp should happen to go out some cold night the tempera-ture would run right down and chill your
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