280 AN EGG FARM. 



Some operators advise a heat of 106 for the last stages 

 of hatching and claim it is of no consequence if the 

 chicks pant. But, although an adult fowl may go 

 around panting on a summer day when the mercury 

 stands at 106 or higher, and be apparently none the 

 worse afterwards, the writer is quite sure that the same 

 temperature injures delicate chicks, especially as they do 

 not get as good a chance at a little fresh air as if in the 

 nest, where every motion they make operates the venti- 

 lating fans of down. Man in his clumsy attempts to 

 ventilate mechanically sometimes has a shaft run through 

 a room to revolve fans for his comfort, but he could 

 never attach millions of exceedingly minute fans to his 

 incubator walls to be moved by the occupants. Thus do 

 perfect cosmic provisions mock man's puny efforts. 



