NATURAL LAWS. 7 



to raise young chicks of this inbred stock by incubators and 

 brooders that are only fit for kindling 1 wood and made to sell, 

 not to hatch and raise chicks. This you all know to be a fact. 

 An incubator chick is a hot-house plant and can not stand 

 outside air or exposure. In the first place, they are not 

 hatched properly, not the right kind of heat and ventilation 

 and the moisture the hen gives. To prove this, I will only 

 call your attention to this fact. Why do incubators hatch 

 cripples? Did you ever see a hen hatch crippled chicks? 

 Also, if an egg is fertile, the hen hatches the egg almost 

 every time, especially if the hen steals her nest. But just 

 as soon as you test her ejfgs wait for her to go on the nest 

 and close her nest up tight and the chances are the hen 

 won't hatch every egg. You cannot fool with nature. 



An incubator that hatches the chicks healthy and a 

 brooder that raises the chicks also healthy, if the owner uses 

 judgment, can raise the chicks just as well as the hen can. 

 I have done this four years. I use a good incubator and a 

 Natural Hen brooder of my own make. I never have any 

 trouble now in any way. I would have given $1,0'0 cash 

 fifteen years ago to have known what I know to-day. I 

 don't know it all now by a long ways. I learn every day, 

 by experience only. You may learn or read all your life 

 time how to make gold into money or read how to care for 

 Poultry. You learn nothing by reading unless you have a 

 good book to go by and some experience at least, and the 

 book must be from a practical experienced poultryman. 



Do Incubator Chicks Lay Eggs and Lots of Them? 



Yes and no. I have experimented for many years on 

 this one particular point. The average number of eggs laid 

 by incubator chickens are sixty to eighty per year. Try it 

 and see for yourself. The average number laid by a hen 

 hatched chicken is 120 to 200 per year, according to the 

 breed. Leghorns are not the best layers. This depends on 

 the breed of chickens. I have gotten 239 eggs per year from 

 White Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds and Black Lang- 



