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ment the eggs are equally heated, and do not require 

 moving from place to place ; indeed, the lamp, when 

 once the incubator is fairly started, is the only part of 

 the machinery that should require attention namely, 

 refilling every twenty-four hours. It being an 

 ordinary paraffin lamp, no special care is required 

 in manipulating it, the burner adopted being much 

 the same as those used in ordinary table lamps. The 

 water in the tray also requires replenishing once in 

 every week or ten days. 



Keep moving up the unhatched eggs towards one 

 end of the line of hen boxes, but leave two or three 

 eggs addled ones will do under every hen until the 

 brood that is to be her future care is restored to her. 

 This keeps her light breasted and in good practice to 

 receive her young ones again. 



Leave the young birds in the drawer of the 

 incubator until they dry. Hatching eggs and hatched 

 out chickens do not interfere in the least with one 

 another. When thoroughly dry, put the young birds 

 into a covered basket lined with flannel, and transport 

 them to the field where they are to be reared, and 

 where the hens must be taken and put into coops at 

 the same time to receive them. Put twelve or 

 thirteen birds to each hen, not more, for as they 

 grow, in the course of a fortnight, the hen will be 

 unable to keep warm and do justice to a larger 

 number. We ourselves generally, unless the weather 

 be very fine, keep the hen and young ones on some 



