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would be alike. In the eggs kept for thirty-five days we found eight 

 per cent fertility; twenty-eight days, nineteen per cent; twenty-one 

 days, fifty-two per cent; fourteen days, seventy-eight per cent; seven 

 days, eighty per cent ; one day, eighty-six per cent. Coming down to 

 the actual hatching of these eggs we found for each period the fol- 

 lowing number of chickens were hatched : Six, ten, twelve, thirty- 

 two, thirty-six, seventy-four per cent, respectively, according to the 

 time these eggs were kept. These eggs, as you will see, were kept at a 

 temperature that was unfavorable, and yet few persons realize what 

 the loss may be in keeping eggs for hatching for two or three weeks 

 or more in a temperature of sixty-five degrees, which is five degrees 

 colder than the ordinary living room. 



In the next experiment we kept eggs for hatching fourteen days 

 under three different temperature conditions. The first bunch of 

 eggs were kept in a temperature that ranged from seventy-three to 

 fifty-three degrees, at an average of sixty-five degrees Fahrenheit. 

 The next bunch was kept in a cold storage room, fifty-four to forty- 

 five degrees, with an average temperature of fifty degrees Fahrenheit, 

 and the others were kept in a very warm room, where there was a 

 furnace, with an average temperature of eighty degrees. These eggs 

 were all turned each day. At the end of two weeks all the eggs were 

 placed in the same incubator, with the result that the eggs kept in 

 living rooms for two weeks, at an average temperature of sixty-five 

 degrees, had eighty-eight per cent fertility, and those kept in cold 

 storage had ninety per cent fertility, and those kept in warm, dry 

 room had twenty-four per cent fertility. In other words, the eggs 

 that were originally as good as the others, by being kept in a warm 

 room, the germ was killed before it developed so it could be recognized 

 as ever having been fertile. The actual hatching power in this in- 

 stance was fifty-two per cent in the living room, while in the cold 

 storage we hatched seventy-six per cent and in the furnace room we 

 hatched no chickens at all, showing how life that was once in exist- 

 ence had disappeared gradually until there was no hatching power 

 whatever. The natural conclusion from this experiment is that we 

 ought to keep our eggs in a temperature as low as fifty degrees, or 

 perhaps lower, at least down to forty-five degrees, if we can. The 

 best place to keep the eggs is down on the bottom of the cellar, not 

 on a shelf or table, but in the coldest place possible, without danger 

 of freezing. These eggs ought to be covered with something to pre- 

 vent evaporations and turned frequently. 



