good incubator, provided you are careful to avoid 

 bad ones and are willing to pay a fair price for the 

 best. 



Do not be deceived by a similarity in names of 

 incubators or hatchers. It sometimes happens that 

 a sharper, with plenty of cash to advertise and push 

 a business will drive a rattling trade in a good- 

 looking inferior machine for several years, making 

 thousands of sales and hosts of unhappy purchasers. 

 Then, when complaints pile up like blocks of ice in 

 a gorge, and respectable papers begin to question 

 the wisdom of allowing the advertisement to remain, 

 and the business begins to decline, he gets out 

 another cheap trap and gives it another name, 

 similar to that of a first-class hatcher, which has an 

 established reputation. Sharps or sharks of this 

 kind sometimes hatch out a new firm name with 

 the new machine, and the people make a rush for 

 the cheap affair, many of them confusing or con- 

 founding it with the meritorious machine, whose 

 name it approaches as closely as possible, without 

 possessing a single feature, except the name, which 

 could be called even a weak imitation. These 

 tricksters disappoint their customers and injure the 

 reputation of a good machine. Look out for 

 them. 



HOW TO CHOOSE AN INCUBATOR. 



We are not going to tell you which make of 

 incubator to buy ; but we are going to try to show 

 you how the various kinds of incubators are con- 

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