paper recently wrote advocating hot water incu- 

 bators " because hot water heat is moist" and sug- 

 gested that it was the duty of those possessing 

 " knowledge" to give it to the fraternity through 

 the columns of the poultry papers (and the editor 

 published the nonsense without a word of com- 

 ment). 



In another poultry journal an advertiser of a hot 

 water incubator, says : "Hot air is necessarily 

 foul air. Hot water is next to hot blood, the hen's 

 life giver to eggs." 



Did you ever hear such philosophy ? 



We do not need a sage to tell us that " hot 

 water is moist" but we have yet to discover an 

 incubator in which the eggs are placed in the 

 water. Neither do we know of one in which the 

 hot water tank is open to the egg chamber ; nor 

 would a single chick hatch in an incubator with 

 the heater tank so opened. 



Nor have we any knowledge of blood sweating 

 hens. 



The heating tanks of all hot water incubators 

 are both air-tight and water-tight as far as they 

 connect with the egg chamber, and if they never 

 leaked, not a single drop of moisture would ever 

 get into the egg chamber from that source ; and 

 except in those machines having a top opening or 

 tube from the hot water tank, in which a float or 

 other device is used to operate on a regulator lever 

 or valve, by expansion of water in said tank, the 

 water in the tank would never evaporate or grow 

 less, but would suffice for running the machine 

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