. Artificial incubation and incubators ... figures than we at the East can do it. It is only by-improving the quality of the birds marketed, and getting theminto market at an early age, that we can make a paying busi-ness of it. Bear in mind always that the profit on chickens is made by get-ting them fit for market at the earliest possible age. To do this, the breeder must avail himself of artificial is an absolute necessity to success that he employ Incubatorsand brooders in connection with the natural method. I say inconnection with, for I do not advise the nse of artificial means t
. Artificial incubation and incubators ... figures than we at the East can do it. It is only by-improving the quality of the birds marketed, and getting theminto market at an early age, that we can make a paying busi-ness of it. Bear in mind always that the profit on chickens is made by get-ting them fit for market at the earliest possible age. To do this, the breeder must avail himself of artificial is an absolute necessity to success that he employ Incubatorsand brooders in connection with the natural method. I say inconnection with, for I do not advise the nse of artificial means tothe entire exclusion of the natural. .Taking, for instance, a busi-ness in which it is proposed to keep five hundred hens. These, atan average of one hundred and fifty eggs each, will give seventy- five thousand perhen to sit twice,her nest. We havethousand eggs, andthousand which wewise dispose two hundred eggscould use all of thisa total of fifty-threedred and fifty chick-hen to hatch ten itwenty chicks in allarid, making a total. FEEDING HOPPER. year. Now, allow athirteen eggs beingthen used thirteenhave sixty-twoare obliged to other-With six Incubators,capacity each, wesurplus and producethousand, five hun-ens. Allowing eachchicks per sitting——we have ten thous-of sixty-three thous_ and, five hundred and fifty. Now, the care of the six Incubatorsneed not take over two hours per day, while the proper care ofthe hens, the necessary watching to see that they do not get offtheir nests, feeding, watering, cleaning the apartments and nests,etc., would take fully as much time, and, if only one hundredhens were sitting at once, the time would extend through sevenmonths, with a return of less than one-fifth that of the this we have given the hens credit for about seventy-seven percent., while the average hatch with the hens where large num-bers are kept and set is not over sixty per cent. Figuring at thislatter percentage, we should get only seven thousand,
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