the regulator, or that on one certain day they for- 

 got to fill the incubator lamps and the lights were 

 out for fourteen hours ; or that they forgot about 

 turning the eggs, or left them out to air while attend- 

 ing something else, and they got chilled ; or that 

 they forgot to put in moisture at the proper time ; 

 that one of the children slipped into the incubator 

 room and turned the lamp up or down, or put it 

 out ; or that a neighbor, who was looking at the 

 machine, forgot to close the doors of the incubator ; 

 or that the attendant accidentally set a tray, stick 

 or some other trifle on the top of the machine in 

 such a manner as to cover or rest on the closed 

 valve of the heat escape, and the temperature got 

 up to 1 10 before it was discovered. It is folly to 

 omit or conceal these facts when they are known 

 to the party who asks advice, because it cheats him- 

 self out of the chance of obtaining the remedy he 

 seeks. 



As we have intimated above, many poultrymen 

 fail to give exact details, either because they have 

 failed to see or notice some of them, or because 

 they think they are not important ; and while we 

 cannot advise them with as good effect as if we 

 knew the real state of affairs, they cannot be said 

 to deliberately deceive. 



But what about that class of individuals who are 

 so foolish as to deliberately lie when presenting 

 their case of failure to the maker of the incubator, 

 which they happen to be using ? What help can a 

 man hope to get, who, having bought a lot of 

 store eggs which produce forty per cent, of weak 

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