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and as reasonable in its statements as one of experience 

 would expect an advertisement to be yet it says that 

 failure and disappointment are impossible, and that it 

 " makes good every claim in every hatch," while its 

 book gives " the whole truth on the incubator question." 



Over the leaf is another whose manufacturer " expects 

 to revolutionize the industry " because he has discovered 

 a new insulating material. He has never seen or heard 

 of any other incubator that could even rival his own. 



The next one is guaranteed as the best hatcher on 

 the market at any price, and affirms that the buyer of it 

 takes no chances. 



Soon comes another manufacturer who says that he 

 will let his machine stand on its record. Marvelous, of 

 course ! 



Still another has a regulator that never has to be 

 touched. " The most perfect ever invented " and is the 

 only machine " that's right." 



The next one " hatches and broods perfectly." The 

 next guarantees perfect workmanship, perfect material, 

 and perfect operation. 



The next is " without a doubt the most careful incu- 

 bator made." It is " the only machine that is scientifi- 

 cally correct." 



The next that comes to my eye has a new phrase 

 which recalls the framers of our Constitution "They 

 hatch alike in the hands of women, beginners, and ex- 

 perts." Surely this is the phrase to meet our need in 

 this chapter ! They are " the highest-grade incubators 

 built anywhere by anybody," and one needs no previous 

 experience to operate them successfully. 



If the Beginner should wade through the slush of 



