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setting. Watch the air-space in the large ends 

 of eggs which are being incubated. 



It is the best guide to follow in adjusting 

 the ventilators in the incubator. If a broody 

 hen can be found, set her at the same time 

 that you start the incubator, then compare the 

 eggs under her from time to time, with those 

 in the machine. Never neglect to air and 

 turn the eggs in the incubator night and morn- 

 ing. 



Don't open the machine after the morning of 

 the twentieth day until the morning of the 

 twenty-second, when the chicks should all be 

 out of the shell. It won't hurt those that hatch 

 first to stay in the incubator, but opening a door 

 to take them out would allow moisture to es- 

 cape, and retard the remaining eggs from 

 hatching. 



Garden. The sap will soon be rising in the 

 maples. Bore, and hang cans to catch the sirup. 

 Time will be saved if a diagram of the garden is 

 made on a large sheet of paper. Decide how 

 much space is to be given to each variety, and 



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