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feeding, etc. There are many good ones, and there are 

 also many people getting very good results though their 

 equipment and methods are far from being all that is desir- 

 able, but however a person may begin sooner or later (if 

 be stays) he works around to houses, breeds, methods, 

 machines that suit him . 



The most practical advice I can give in regard to choice 

 of an incubator is to urge one beginning with them to buy 

 not more than one or two incubators of medium capacity, 

 say 100 to 200 eggs each before he is sure he can run that 

 make of incubator satisfactorily, which means of course, 

 beginning in a small way. That certainly is how anyone 

 who has had no experience in artificial incubation should 

 begin, yet every year a great many people who have never 

 run an incubator and have it all to learn are equipping 

 plants on which they start with from five or six to fifteen 

 or twenty incubators, and while, as I have said, the dif- 

 ferences between incubators as shown by general results is 

 not considerable, the differences between operators as 

 shown by experiences with the same machines are such 

 that each operator wants to be sure which machines will 

 suit him best before investing in many incubators, other- 

 wise one is likely to find himself before long in the pre- 

 dicament of having to either use machines with which he 

 cannot do his best work, or change machines at consider- 

 able expense, and perhaps temporary loss. 



24. Brooding Systems and Brooders. — Much of 

 -what has been said of relative merits of incubators will 

 apply equally to brooders, and to some extent to brooding 

 systems, though of late years one system of brooding seems 



