CHAPTER XV 

 How to Build an Ideal Incubator House 



I have told you in my former chapters how to produce 

 your eggs in the greatest possible number and how to 

 produce eggs that will give you the largest hatches. 

 Now you will want to know how to hatch them. First, 

 I will tell you how to build what I consider the most 

 perfect incubator house. Select a side hill if you have 

 one near by, for a perfect incubator house should be 

 part under ground and part on top. You can determine 

 size of house by the number of machines you want to 

 use and the number of chicks you wish to hatch. But it 

 is always safer to build much larger than your present 

 needs, then you will not have to rebuild or enlarge when 

 your business grows. 



To build this house, put up a wall of stone five feet 

 high on all four sides, putting in windows at the top of 

 your wall; a four-pane window, 8 by lo glass, will 

 answer the purpose nicely. Hinge at bottom so it will 

 open inside. 



Put windows on each side and at south end. Put none 

 on north side. A window every ten feet is about right. 

 Now put a window in each end for ventilation. Put 

 these windows near peak; a six-light window, 8 by lo 

 glass, and in summer these can be left open for ventila- 

 tion. This makes an ideal incubator house. 



Throw up dirt to top of wall on all sides, except 

 south end, and put in a double door wide enough to carry 

 out any incubator set up. 



The air in such a house always smells free from lamp 

 smoke, and if you fail to get good hatches in such a 

 house you will know it is not the fault of the house. 



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