. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. POULTRY. 1395 years past considerable improvement has been made in incubators, until we have them now that are so simple in construction, that they can be successfully managed with comparatively little labor and expense. An incubator that will hatch from seventy to seventy-five per cent, of the eggs, may be considered a good one. As with the hen, the fresher the eggs, the better they will hatch. Eggs that are over a week old, will, as a general rule, hatch very poo
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. POULTRY. 1395 years past considerable improvement has been made in incubators, until we have them now that are so simple in construction, that they can be successfully managed with comparatively little labor and expense. An incubator that will hatch from seventy to seventy-five per cent, of the eggs, may be considered a good one. As with the hen, the fresher the eggs, the better they will hatch. Eggs that are over a week old, will, as a general rule, hatch very poorly by artificial heat. ECLIPSE INCUBATOR. With the hen, there is considerable loss by eggs broken in the nest, and nests deserted from one cause or another. Again, the eggs of different breeds of poultry vary greatly in fertility, while the eggs of the same breeds will also vary much in this respect. In the Eclipse Incubator, manufactured by E. A. Samuels, of Waltham, Mass., the heat is radiated from a tank which is so contrived that there is a uniform circulation of hot water through it, and is applied to the top of the eggs in imitation of heat from the hen. The eggs are placed in drawers, the bottom of which consist of wire netting. Beneath the drawers is a series of ventilating pipes, which conduct to the bottom of tlie eggs a full supply of cool, damp air. The water in the tank is heated by a kerosene oil lamp, which consumes only about a quart of oil in twenty-four hours. ? The lamp burns beneath a small boiler which connects with the tank, as illustrated in the above cut. By no possibility can the fumes of the lamp enter the incubator or reach the 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 Flint, Charles L. (Charles Louis), 1824-1889. New York, Casselberry
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