WHITE WYANDOTTES 111 



never find fault with you for being too careful. 

 Attend to the details in such way as suits you 

 best, provided the result is thorough and ever- 

 lasting cleanliness. Nothing less will win out, 

 and nothing less will meet the requirements of 

 our factory rules. 



The first thing to do is to get the incubating 

 cellar made. It ought to be four feet in the 

 ground and four feet out of it. Make it ten feet 

 by fifteen, inside measure, and you can easily 

 run five two-hundred-egg incubators. Build it 

 near the south fence in No. 4, that's the lot for 

 the hens. The walls are to be of brick, and we'll 

 have a brick floor put in, for it's too cold to con- 

 crete it now. Gables are to point east and west, 

 and each is to have a window ; put the door in 

 the middle of the south wall, and shingle the 

 roof. Digging through three feet of frost will 

 be hard, but it must be done, and done quickly. 

 I want you to start your incubator lamps before 

 the 3d of February." 



" I can dig the hole without much trouble, . 

 a big fire on the ground for two or three hours 

 will help, and I can put on the roof and do 

 all the carpenter work, but I can't lay the 

 brick." 



" I'll look out for that part of the job, but I 

 want you to see that things are pushed, for I shall 

 have a thousand eggs here by February 1st and 

 another thousand by the 25th, and these eggs 

 mean money." 



