BEGINNING ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION 



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Cold Storage Egg is all right as long as it is LEFT 

 THERE!" But, the real Mission of the cold-storage 

 egg is not to remain in storage. It was put there with 

 the one idea : to await its coming out ; and its bringing- 

 out party is a masquerade, in which it takes the part 

 either of a fresh egg, or a " Just-as-Good-As." 



A Part of Cornell's White Leghorn Record. Chicks Artificially Hatched and 

 Brooded, and Graded as "Weak " 



If I should have the temerity to ask you, " What 

 about incubating a cold-storage egg?" you would not 

 even consider the subject. You would only laugh scorn- 

 fully at the folly of such a proposition. Yet, I suspect 

 that there are very few fanciers who do not send out 

 eggs for hatching, and very few poultry raisers of any 

 kind who do not try to incubate at home, eggs which 

 have several of the qualities which go to make cold- 

 storage eggs to you, tmthinkable, as possible producers 

 of chicks. 



