CHAPTER VI 
INCUBATORS AND BROODERS 
: VERY poultry keeper who raises more than 
two or three hundred chickens each year 
now takes it for granted that one or more 
incubators and brooders are. to be a part of his 
equipment. So far as the author is concerned, I 
Merits of Arti: WOuld: not give up incubators and 
ficial Methods brooders if I were going to hatch only 
of Hatching one hundred chicks a year, and I am 
perfectly sincere in believing that an incubator and 
brooder would be a good investment for every one 
who raises that number or a greater number of 
chickens annually. 
Artificial incubation and brooding are no longer 
-experiments; the best of the machines on the mar- 
-ket to-day have proven, in the hands of practical 
poultry keepers the country over, that they are 
capable of giving every bit as satisfactory results 
as the old hen herself, and of doing it, too, with 
less bother and annoyance. However, the incu- 
bator or brooder that can beat the old hen at her 
own game has not yet been invented, and probably 
a 
