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various makers are sent necessarily with the machine, 

 and are always of the most comprehensive and 

 practicle nature. Hearson's incubators are certainly 

 very easy to work, require very little attention, can 

 easily be understood from carefully reading the 

 instructions ; and if Mr Hearson would turn his 

 attention to adding to his machine a door or opening 

 on the left-hand side, facing the lamp, so that the 

 interior can be got at more readily for cleansing 

 purposes, I must say that, although I have as yet not 

 had occasion to try his new " Mechanical Baby 

 Farm," my own family being by now pretty well 

 reared (it is worth while to send for Mr Hearson's 

 little book if only to see the picture of the comfortable 

 little kid in its artificially heated cradle), I think that, 

 in the matter of incubators for young birds, his new 

 Thermostatic leaves little to be desired, and artificial 

 machines for the rearing of chickens and young game 

 are bound to hold their own in this country, the 

 uncertainty of, and frequent changes in our climate, 

 being so abnormal as to render the adoption of the 

 Chinese and Egyptian plans of rearing chickens 

 underground a perfect impossibility. 



Well, then, all things being in order, as your 

 pheasants' eggs crack from the twenty-second to the 

 twenty-fourth day from the commencement of incuba- 

 tion, take them away from under the hen, and place 

 them in the drawer of the hatcher, the movable 

 bottom of which is curved, so that by this arrange- 



