. Artificial incubating and brooding. these years the Egyp-tian breed of chickens has not changed, and the manner of re-production has remained immutable. Not long since I securedthe metal stamp of a chicken, deposited in a tomb over twothousand years ago, and it is a perfect type of the Egyptianfowl of to-day, and when this stamp was struck, artificial in-cubation was a thing of actual existence in Egypt. Not only are the eggs put through the process of incu-bation more cheaply here than anywhere else in the world, butchicks are reared at an expense past comprehension, whiledisease and natura
. Artificial incubating and brooding. these years the Egyp-tian breed of chickens has not changed, and the manner of re-production has remained immutable. Not long since I securedthe metal stamp of a chicken, deposited in a tomb over twothousand years ago, and it is a perfect type of the Egyptianfowl of to-day, and when this stamp was struck, artificial in-cubation was a thing of actual existence in Egypt. Not only are the eggs put through the process of incu-bation more cheaply here than anywhere else in the world, butchicks are reared at an expense past comprehension, whiledisease and natural death among fowls, because of tireless careare almost unknown. One man and a boy are the sole attend-ants of the incubatory I explored * * Think of 234,000chicks owing life alone to the tender care, in three monthstime, of an old man with most defective eyesight and a 16-yeaiold boy, and some conception may be had of the economies ofthis Egyptian industrj.—-U. S. Consul General Cardwell, Sci-entific Am. Supplement, No. 29, 12 THE EGG AND ITS GERM
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