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As "hatching" is often attended with great 

 disappointments, my readers may like to know 

 some of their causes, and the best means of 

 guarding against them. 



The weather is often unjustly blamed; it 

 ought not to have the influence so many hen- 

 wives ascribe to it. You can, and should, always 

 defend your poor sitters from its attacks. If 

 my plan of "sitting-house" is adopted, you can 

 expel John Frost by means of the flue, and, by 

 damping the eggs regularly, set at nought the 

 sharp drying wind, however penetrating. 



The mischances in hatching should really be 

 few. If you set a hen under unnatural circum- 

 stances, you must make it up to her by extra 

 kindness, and endeavour to render the cloister- 



