Egyptian Hatching. %^ 



SECTION VIIL 



Hatching Eggs by Artificial Eleat, 



During ages, beyond the power of his- 

 torical records to enumerate, the Egyptian 

 people have been in the practice of hatching 

 the eggs of ail kinds of poultry, more espe- 

 cially the gallinaceous, by mean^i of arti- 

 ficial heat ; means the m.ost obvious, when 

 attended with success, of*raising the great- 

 est abundance of that species of provision 

 for public use. The philosophers of the 

 French Academy, ever on the vratch for 

 the advancement of scientific or practical 

 improvement, in tlie early and towards the 

 middle part of the last century, eagerly 

 laid hold of the report of their ti'avellers, 

 and made experiments in their own country 

 of this Egyptian practice. The experiment 



