INCUBATION IN EGYPT. 



Artificial incubation is almost as "old as the 

 hills." It was known and practised in ancient 

 Egypt, and is to-day an important industry of that 

 interesting country. 



While no monumental picture of an incubator 

 has been discovered, the authorities are a unit in 

 the belief that the Egyptian hatching houses of the 

 present time are substantially the same as those of 

 prehistoric Egypt. 



Diodorus of Sicily speaks of it as an art that had 

 been in use a long period before his time. Pliny 

 says nearly the same. The Roman Emperor 

 Hadrian found it generally practised in Egypt, and 

 makes special mention of it in his description of 

 the usages and customs of that country. 



A French missionary, who traveled in Egypt in 

 1737, says: "I found there were about four 

 hundred chicken- ovens, each one furnishing about 

 two hundred and forty thousand fowls, making 

 about one hundred millions produced each year 

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