CHAPTER X 



INCUBATORS AND BROODERS 



WHETHER it is best to use incubators on farms 

 where only small flocks of fowls are kept, is often 

 a difficult question to decide, particularly for those 

 who are familiar with only the natural method of 

 incubation. As the adoption of modern methods 

 includes not only the purchase of an incubator 

 and a brooder to care for the young fowls, but also 

 carries with it a marked change in their manage- 

 ment, it is a question of considerable importance. 



One frequently hears it said that if success is 

 to be attained, new and " up-to-date" appliances 

 must be used, and that old methods are too slow 

 for the present age. In one sense this is undoubt- 

 edly true, but when seen from another viewpoint 

 it becomes very misleading. It is true, and prob- 

 ably always will be true, that in order to achieve 

 success in any line of work one should employ 

 the best means at his command. This does not 

 prove, however, that because the modern incubator 

 is a new invention and has proved to be a great 

 advantage to many, it is best for every person 

 who desires to keep fowls to purchase one. Many 



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