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rear at least ten thousand chickens ; and under any cir- 

 cumstances it will only be resorted to to hatch chickens 

 when hens have ceased to be broody. As to whether my 

 system of artificial hatching is superior to that of Cantelo 

 or any other, I may state that I do not claim any original- 

 ity, but rest the success only on the well-known law of 

 a uniform temperature, at which there is not the slightest 

 difficulty to hatch chickens ; and this uniform heat can be 

 maintained either by manual or mechanical means, which 

 are well known to engineers, and which will be described 

 in some subsequent number of this journal, under the 

 laws of nature in relation to poultry keeping. The fail- 

 ure of Cantelo and others cannot be ascribed to the hatch- 

 ing, but solely to the rearing of the chickens. Now, this 

 is my system, and on it I rest the success of poultry 

 breeding ; and though I do not intend to rely on artificial 

 hatching, yet I shall entirely depend on artificially rearing 

 all the chickens, whether hatched by a hen or by an ap- 

 paratus. 



3d. My system of breeding poultry, and its profits, can 

 no more be judged by the present mode than railway 

 travelling, when first projected, could from the old stage- 

 coaches. For its success it will require a staff of servants, 

 and a subdivision of labor, then a good disciplinarian as 

 superintendent ; and the whole will form a piece of mech- 

 anism which will work with the greatest precision, and 

 afford such statistics as will surprise sceptics. To carry 

 this out is a mere matter of money and will, whether by 

 a private individual or a public company ; but the idea 

 of an association of working partners to attend to fowls is 



