A GOOD INCUBATOR. 



To succeed in raising poultry, either for broilers 

 or for egg production, it is necessary to have a good 

 incubator. A tolerably good or ordinary one will 

 not do ; you should have the very best you can 

 find, regardless of cost, because the first cost cuts 

 a very small figure when compared with the losses 

 which always follow the purchase of a "Cheap 

 John " incubator (?). Of course, you know there 

 are various kinds of cheap affairs misnamed incu- 

 bators. 



The great demand for incubators and brooders 

 has tempted sash manufacturers, makers of show 

 cases and others, to get out various boxes, cases, 

 tanks and barrels, with various attachments, and 

 call them incubators or hatchers. Some buy a lot 

 of almost expired patents, and boom the new 

 machine on the reputation of the old one, to which 

 the patents originally applied, while the new ma- 

 chine possesses none of the good points of the old 

 one, which to build would cost considerably more 

 than the new one is sold for. 



Many of this class never had any merit, and went 

 out of the market, but new ones bob up along the 

 line, have their day of deceit and disappear. Watch 

 for them. 



The wonderful improvements in mechanism in 

 the last few years have made it possible to procure 

 a first-class machine in almost any line, and incu- 

 bators and brooders have moved in the front rank 

 of progress. There is no difficulty in getting a 

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