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THE PEOPLE'S PRACTICAL POULTRY BOOK. 



sawdust laid again upon them, and sprinkled with water heated to one hun- 

 dred and five degrees, so as to make it slightly moist. 



THE ARRANGEMENT OP MR. BRINDLEY ? S INCUBATOR 



is shown by figure 3. It is a copper boiler heated by a lamp or gas jet, B, 

 furnished with a reservoir, also marked B, carefully constructed to burn with 

 steadiness. From this boiler the hot water flows constantly through a sys- 



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tern of metal pipes, arranged in a horizontal place between two plates of 

 glass, which thus forms a hot-air chamber -heated by the pipes. Under the 

 lower glass plates slides the drawer C, lined with felt which contains the 

 eggs. At each side of the lamps at A are 



TEMPORARY RECEPTACLES, OR ARTIFICIAL MOTHERS, 



to receive the chickens for the first day, after which they may be removed 



