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Mr, Gold. Some questions from the Question Box have 

 already been propounded and answered, but there is one here 

 that perhaps some gentleman can answer : " Are Incubators 

 a success ?" 



Mr. Holland. I can say a word or two on that, but not 

 from practical experience. A gentleman with whom I am 

 acquainted at Mt. Washington, Md., had 4,661 chickens in 

 the month of February last, and raised 3,980 of them. Mr. 

 Hawkins of Lancaster, Mass., raised 3,000 in one year. He 

 used the Parker Incubator for a time, but he found it too 

 much trouble ; it had to be attended to every two hours. He 

 substituted the Yardley Incubator, which requires attention 

 only once in twelve hours. 



Mr. Albert Day, of Brooklyn. I am unwilling to let this 

 occasion pass without expressing my great gratification at the 

 ability of the paper that the lady has submitted to this meet- 

 ing, and congratulating the Secretary of our board that he 

 has been able to procure such a paper. I don't know that it 

 is necessary to compliment him, but I have thought for a 

 long time that he was quite a remarkable man, and very 

 fertile in the presentation of topics for discussion at our 

 meetings. He has presented a good bill of fare year after 

 year, and the last is the best, so far. I believe, Mr. Chair- 

 man, that this is the first occasion on which a lady has ad- 

 dressed a meeting of our Board of Agriculture, and I will 

 say, in the honesty of my heart, that I welcome her, and I 

 welcome the able and practical address that she has made. 



It used to be said, " Cotton is King," but after a time that 

 was disputed, and it was claimed that corn was king. Now, 

 I am not going to put fowls in the same category with cotton 

 and corn, but when we consider the immense amount of 

 money that is invested in fowls and their products, we shall 

 all recognize the fact that it is certainly one of the most im- 

 portant industries that we have, and, I think, one of the most 

 neglected. And for this reason I hope that the Secretary 

 will, in the fertility of his genius, introduce more ladies to 

 speak before our board, and if they are as entertaining and 

 instructive as the lady whom we have had the pleasure of 



