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govern moisture, which is a part of the same machine. 

 Surely an attendant, clad to suit, or suited without a 

 suit, can stay a short time in the egg room without par- 

 ticular discomfort. There are quite a considerable num- 

 ber of crafts which compel workmen to encounter a 

 decidedly higher temperature, and cannot a man, if he 

 can explore the region where the eggs are, and have 

 enough of them in the works to pay for constant super- 

 vision, change the air by gentle currents with nicely 

 adjusted fans moved by cunning machinery completely 

 under his control? The incubating room can be located 

 in the center of a still larger room, the latter being held 

 at an almost absolutely even temperature. The walls 

 of the outer room can be built in such a way as to shut 

 out all influence of outside winds, dampness and dry- 

 ness, heat and cold. 



The large incubator room alluded to is at " Aratoma 

 Farm," Stamford, Ct. The writer has never seen it nor 

 communicated with its inventor or proprietor, nor with 

 anybody connected with it, but has read a newspaper 

 account of it. Everything points to the success of the 

 idea. The big stores and factories run out the small 

 ones, as the big fish eat up the little ones, and the box 

 incubators will be devoured by the apartment incubator. 

 Brooding hens, when properly managed, beat the small 

 incubators, and by small we designate all that are custo- 

 marily shipped by rail or wagon ; but the mammoth 

 incubator built where used will beat both. The highest 

 talent can be afforded to run it, the highest degree of 

 certainty in operation can be secured by it, at the mini- 

 mum of cost for supplying heat, moisture and ventila- 

 tion, because of the great number of eggs it will hold. 



We have seen how the comparatively miserable, small, 

 puttering incubator, in its attempts at letting out foul 

 air, carried off dampness also and introduced cool air, 

 which in becoming warmed robbed the eggs of their 



