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ing the eggs while under incubation. As the members of 

 this firm have handled incubators and incubator chicks 

 during many years, and have given their utmost study 

 to the conditions belonging to artificial hatching, one 

 may not carelessly deny their conclusions. These people 

 say, cleverly, that a pullet represents the combination 

 of a small chicken, a large quantity of feed, and a few 

 other conditions. They are willing to go on record as 

 saying also that bowel trouble with incubator chicks is 

 unknown " unless heat goes wrong in brooders !" Lin- 

 ing this up with the statement about an incubator disease, 

 we begin to feel that both incubators and brooders will 

 " bear watching," even after we have used our best judg- 

 ment in selecting the right make of machines. 



Some one says that the poultryman who would fight 

 vermin successfully must be like the lice themselves, 

 " always at it " ; which is by no means a bad way to 

 bring to our minds the fact that this is a war in-which 

 there is "no discharge." However, with systematic use 

 of the disinfectant " paints " and careful whitewashing 

 of inner walls, one may come out victor, and not work 

 half so hard as he must needs if he neglect things till 

 the legion foe get the start of him. 



