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on the market could not turn out satisfactory 

 hatches where there is such a difference in the 

 temperature. A good regulator will take care of 

 the small changes satisfactorily, but where the 

 variation is so marked as it would be in most 

 kitchens it is impossible to keep the incubator egg 

 chamber at a uniform temperature. 



I have had people complain to me about the poor 

 hatches from their incubators, and upon investiga- 

 tion I found many of these complainants' machines 

 being operated within a few feet of the kitchen 

 stove. One of these same people had one of the 

 best basements I ever saw for hatching purposes, 

 and when I asked him why he did not set his 

 machine down there he replied: "I want it handy 

 so that I need not go down into the basement at 

 night to look after the machine and see that it is 

 running right." I told this party that if he moved 

 his machine into the basement, regulated it cor- 

 rectly to start with, and looked after it each 

 morning and evening he would not need to get up 

 at night ; in fact, he need not worry about it during 

 the night. No wonder this party had to get up 

 during the night and look after his regulator and 

 lamp flame; the temperature of his kitchen dropped 

 considerably during the night, hence it was abso- 

 lutely necessary for him to look after it. 



Should the decision have been made in favor of 

 the incubator the question then arises what kind 



