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ment from day to day. At the end of the third day the eggs received 

 their first turning, and tlie next morning we turned them again and 

 cooled them for about ten minutes. The tendency was for the 

 temperature to rise the third weelc, when the chick had commenced 

 to throw off animal heat. By slight adjustment of the regulator we 

 had no trouble in keeping the desired temperature. We cleaned and 

 filled the lamp each day and trimmed the wick. In starting the 

 machine, do not overlook the importance of starting the lamp with 

 a small blaze, so that the blaze will not crawl up and smoke the 

 incubator pipes. Should this happen you should not neglect to see 

 that the pipes and heater drum are cleaned before putting the eggs 

 in the machine. The eggs should be laid flat, and under no circum- 

 stances allow them to be piled on top of each other. You will get 

 much better results by operating the machine in the basement, 

 because you can maintain a much more uniform temperature. If your 

 basement or cellar is dry, then place a pan of water under your 

 machine to furnish sufficient moisture. 



Importance of Cooling the Eggs 



The cooling is done by allowing the eggs to remain out of the 

 machine until they have cooled. If the weather is severe and the 

 room is cool it will not take them long to reach the desired tem- 

 perature. A good way to tell when they are cool enough is to place 

 the eggs to the lid of your eye, and if they feel neither warm nor 

 csld they are at the proper temperature to return to the machine. 



We continued to do this until the nineteenth day, when the eggs 

 began to pip. When we saw the first egg pip we closed the door 

 and did not open it again until we saw the hatch was well over. 

 The first week we ran the machine at a temperature of 102% degrees, 

 and the second week 103 degrees. At the end of the third week the 

 temperature went up to 104 degrees or a little more, but we did not 

 allow it to go over 105 degrees. 



Running the Incubator the Right Temperature 



If the hatch goes over the twenty-first day it is because the 

 machine has been run a little too cold or the eggs cooled a little too 

 long. If the hatch comes off before the twenty-first day it is because 

 the lamp has been run with a blaze a little high. At the end of the 

 nineteenth day the eggs began to pip, so we realized that we had 

 run the machine about right. At the end of the twentieth day the 

 chicks had begun to appear, and at the end of the twenty-first day 

 the hatch was completed and we were proud of the results. We had 



