CHAPTER III 



METHOD TO BE USED 



THE question of method confronts every beginner 

 in poultry raising, and such beginner must decide 

 whether to follow the old way, hatching by hen, 

 or using the modern method, the incubator. 



Before making any definite decision along this 

 line several things must be taken into consideration, 

 and no one should decide such an important ques- 

 tion without giving it lots of thought. Facilities 

 at hand must come in for a big share of considera- 

 tion; location and breed must not be overlooked. 



There is no question but what incubators, the 

 right kind of incubators, are preferable to hens, 

 and it is also a fact that a large poultry plant 

 could not be operated nearly as successfully with 

 hens as with machines; but there are on the other 

 hand many individual cases where incubators are 

 unprofitable to operate. For instance, the poultry 

 raiser who only wishes to raise a couple of dozen 

 chicks would be exercising extravagance by using 

 an incubator. 



People who can find room only in the kitchen 

 for setting a machine, where the temperature goes 

 from one extreme to the other, had better not 

 attempt to use an incubator. The best machine 



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