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Improved Artificial Mother. 
growth. Another was the dividing the large cribs 
info two by means of a transverse partition, so as 
to separate the chickens of different sizes. 
“They soon showed me,” says Réaumur, ‘“ how 
sensible they were of the advantage of my artificial 
mother, by their delight in remaining under it and 
pressing it very close. When they had taken their 
little meals they jumped and capered about, and 
when they began to be tired they repaired to this 
mother, going so deep into it that they were com- 
pelled to squat, so that, when the roof was turned 
up, I perceived the impression of the backs of sev- 
eral chickens upon the furlining. There is, indeed, 
no natural mother that can be so good for the 
chickens as the artificial one, and they are not long 
in discovering this, instinct being a quick and sure 
director. Chickens, direct from the hatching oven, 
from twelve to twenty-four hours after their escape 
from the shell, will begin to pick up and swallow 
small grains or crumbs of bread; and, after having 
_ eaten and walked about a little, they soon find their 
way to the fleecy lodge, where they can rest and 
warm themselves, remaining till hunger puts them 
