Poultry fancier . it may besaid to have done perfect hatching. Notonly will a strictly first-class mo lern in-cubator do this kind of batching in theease of hen eggs and ducks eggs, but itcan be relied on to hatch the eggs of otherkinds of domestic fowl and of wild birdsequally well. Following are examples ofthis grade and variety of work, as doneby the genuine Standard Cyphers In-cubators, manufactured by Cyphers Incu-bator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. CONN. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Poultry Fred H. Stoneburn, Poultry Hus-bandry. Gr
Poultry fancier . it may besaid to have done perfect hatching. Notonly will a strictly first-class mo lern in-cubator do this kind of batching in theease of hen eggs and ducks eggs, but itcan be relied on to hatch the eggs of otherkinds of domestic fowl and of wild birdsequally well. Following are examples ofthis grade and variety of work, as doneby the genuine Standard Cyphers In-cubators, manufactured by Cyphers Incu-bator Company, Buffalo, N. Y. CONN. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Storrs Agricultural Experiment Station. Department of Poultry Fred H. Stoneburn, Poultry Hus-bandry. Grant M- Curtis, President. Storrs, Conn., Aug. 14, 1911 Cyphers Incubator Company,Buffalo, N. dear Mr. Curtis: — For quite a series of yearsit has been evident to the sportsmen ofthis state that the supply of native gamebirds is decreasing with great fact, conditions have reached such apass that many well posted men feelthat there is danger of complete exter-mination of both quail and At the State Agricultural College,Storrs, Conn., the State Game and FishCommissioners are Hatching Partridgeand Quail Eggs very successfully byArtificial Means. In view of this fact the State Fishand Game Commissioners have been giv-ing much thought to the problem ofrestocking the natural covers of the statewith these birds. As a result of theirinvestigation on the subject they con-cluded to attempt artificial propagation, and this work was begun a few monthsago. The experiment is t>emg conductedon the grounds of this institution, StateOrnithologist H. K. Job, being in charge. During the natural breeding seasonof the partridge several clutches of eggswere secured from nests in the some cases these eggs were practicallyfresh, while in others they had been par-tially incubated by the breeding all fifty-one eggs were secured, andthese were placed in one of your small-sized incubators, with the following re-sults : No. Eggs Set. No. EggsHatched10
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