96 IOWA D3CPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



]\Irs. Ashby : Some people claim those are the last hatched, 

 and sometimes I think the eggs are not turned properly. 



Question: Don't you believe that those crippled chickens you 

 find in the incubator might not be from the eggs the hen would kill 

 when they first hatch? 



Mrs. Ashby : That is possibly true. 



A ]\Iember : In a hatch of 260 eggs in the incubator and the 

 same number of hens, we would have as high as thirty cripples in 

 the incubator, when there wouldn't be one from the hens, when 

 the same eggs were divided properly between the hens and the 

 incubator. 



Mrs. Ashby : Have you noticed when the young chickens come 

 out that they are perhaps damp, and that the temperature is really 

 lower than it should be. I think when the chicks knock over the 

 thermometer we do not always see it. 



The jMember: In the last hatch of our incubator last spring, 

 the thermometer didn't vary one degree, and there were a little 

 over thirty chickens that were cripples. 



Mrs. Ashby : Perhaps I can answer that better by telling a lit- 

 tle story. There was an Irishman who was traveling on a railway 

 train. He got very hungry, and when the train stopped at a cer- 

 tain station he got otf to get himself a little lunch. Before he had 

 his lunch, the bell began to ring and the train began to pull out. 

 He came running along and j'elled at the top of his voice, "Hold 

 on that steam engine of yours, ye have a man on board that has 

 been left behind." (Laughter.) I think, possibly while you have 

 told me all you know about that, there is something behind. Per- 

 haps there was something the matter you didn't just know. 



The President : The next paper is by Professor Curtiss, who 

 will address you on the following subject : 



WHAT THE IOWA STATE COLLEGE IS DOING FOR THE BOYS 

 AND GIRLS OF IOWA. 



PROF. C. F. CURTISS, AMES, lA. 



The function of the Iowa State College is manifestly to serve as the 

 educational center of the agricultural and industrial interests of the State. 

 A detailed description of the curriculum and lines of work and investiga- 

 tions will not be attempted here. 



