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be stronger and more lively. In just such an incubator as the one de- 



•oiibed, the writer hatched over two hundred chickens two years ago. 



For those who are ambitious to try top heat, the same sort of a tank is 



required, but a boiler must 

 be attached at the side with 

 an upper and lower pipe for 

 circulation. Any plumber 

 can attach the boiler, and 

 the faucet must be at the 

 bottom of the boiler on one 

 side. 



The drawers containing 

 the eggs should slide be- 

 neath the tank. A stand 

 for the lamp should be 

 screwed to one end of tlie 



case in such a position as to bring the lamp under the boiler (see illustration 



above). This incubator can be cooled by raising the lid, turning down the 



lamp and pulling the drawers part way out. 



In both incubators while the eggs are hatching sprinkle them two or three 



times with quite warm water. After the chicks are hatched they need a 



warm cover, a good run, plenty 



of clean gravel, fresh water, fine 



ci'acked corn, and green food 



e yery day. 



FIG. 3. — ^TOP HEAT INCTIBATOE, ON TABLE. 



FIG. 4. — FOllM OF TANK. 



How to Raise Artlflcially- 

 Hatclied CliicUeiis._The fol- 

 lowing article is from the pen of a gentleman who has given the matter of 

 the artificial hatching of chickens much careful study, and he tells how to 

 successfully raise the young chicks after being so hatched: 



" It is evident to the most casual observer tlaat chickens hatched without 

 a mother must be raised without a mother. Born orphans, they must re- 

 main orphans. When my incubator produced the first chick, what a com- 

 motion there was in the house. 

 The birth of a baby wouldn't 

 have been a circumstance to 

 it; and while the women-folks 

 would have known what to do 

 with a new baby, we all 

 looked at one another with 

 ^J ^^ ^ ' >-^ blank bewilderment when the 



question was asked what wo 

 should do with the new chick. 

 The thei-mometer outside was 

 down nearly to the freezing 

 point, while in the incubator 

 ^he temperature was 105 degrees. The little chick's hair stood on end, and 

 he was panting for dear life. He must come out of there, and as his brothers 

 and sisters were following him out of the shells, we began to prepare all 

 sorts of receptacles for them. We rigged up a mother on the heater, and 

 put in it several chicks that lived a few hours and then died. We de- 

 wded it was too cold, so we put others in a box and put them back iu Um 



FIG. 1. 



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