. Artificial incubating and brooding. rer direct there would have been thedifficulty of arranging the matter by correspondence, takingdown, crating and shipping the machine back and remittingthe difference in price, and paying return freight charges onthe larger machine. Consider well the hatching capacity you require for yourbusiness and buy a good incubator of the size that will do thework you wish to have done. The time has gone by when thereis any question about an incubator doing the work an incubatoris wanted to do. It has been abundantly proven that a good,dependable incubator will not
. Artificial incubating and brooding. rer direct there would have been thedifficulty of arranging the matter by correspondence, takingdown, crating and shipping the machine back and remittingthe difference in price, and paying return freight charges onthe larger machine. Consider well the hatching capacity you require for yourbusiness and buy a good incubator of the size that will do thework you wish to have done. The time has gone by when thereis any question about an incubator doing the work an incubatoris wanted to do. It has been abundantly proven that a good,dependable incubator will not only hatch chickens, but willhatch those that are strong and thrifty; the incubator vi-ill dobetter work than will the erratic sitting hens. This point ofbuying a good incubator is suggested by the exi^erienceof a lady who mentioned incidentally that she boughtan incubator last spring and sold the chicks of the first hatchfor enough to pay for the machine and had some $5 over;as she had never used an incubator before, such an experi-. 37—A CONFINED PEN IN FRONT OF THE BROODERThis illustration shows a method of confining chicks that should not be pl^cticed in warmweather. The pens should have wire or lath sides to allow of a free circulation of air. ence is abundant proof of the good work incubators will do. LOCATION OF AN INCUBATOR The location of the incubator is a most important question,for upon its right location much depends; as, for example, itsaccessibility and hence ease of management^ the supply of freshair for it, and many other aids to good hatches. Taking up thequestion of fresh air first, because it is very important—it isreally wonderful that some incubator managers get as good re-sults as they do. The common advice is, Put the incubatorin a cellar, without a thought of how many different shades ofmeaning are attached to that word, cellar. In some sectionsof the country there are no ^such tilings as cellars, in othersections, as for example, New England, a cel
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