BROILERS AND ROASTERS. 



CHAPTER IV. 



Buildings and Equipment. 



23. About Incubators. This is one of the points on 

 which one not familiar with the work of the different 

 makes of incubators thinks it would be to his advantage to 

 have specific advice from some disinterested person who 

 did know something of what was being done with differ- 

 ent machines. As an editor of a poultry paper, visiting 

 many poultrymeii every season, and' in correspondence 

 with many more, I am supposed by a great many people 

 to be able to give such advice, and accused by some of 

 being unwilling to do so because recommending one 

 machine would result in the withdrawal of the advertising 

 patronage of the manufacturers of other incubators. A 

 number of such .persons are not inclined to accept as 

 sincere and truthful the statement I frequently make in 

 reply to such questions, that I do not know which is the 

 best machine ; that as nearly as I can judge from observa- 

 tions and reports there is little difference in the results 

 obtained from different machines. One make of machine 

 will suit one man better than any other. Another man 

 just as successful in hatching will prefer a different 

 machine. Many operators use two or more makes of 



