INCUBATORS AND BROODERS 
Sundays, because with a standard make of machine 
such close and constant attention as this is not 
necessary. 
There is more than one good make on the 
market. The beginner should consider the expe- 
rience of those who have tried different machines. 
Don’t pay much attention to testimonials report- 
ing 100% hatches, but get a machine that has 
given satisfaction on the large, successful poultry 
farms. This is the very best advice I can give to 
the man who knows nothing about it himself. 
The small poultry keeper is in a position to profit 
as much, accordingly, by the use of incubators and 
brooders as the larger breeder. With a small flock 
it frequently occurs that scarcely any eggs are 
received at times when the greater part of the 
flock are sitting or want to sit; or, if he has a 
non-sitting breed, he has to either use an incubator 
or buy broody hens, and the machine is certainly 
preferable. 
Here are several points of advantage of 
machines over hens which the small breeder will 
do well to observe: Broody hens may be “ broken 
up ” immediately and started to laying again in a 
week or two; it is absolutely true that it is easier 
to attend to an incubator and brooder than it is 
to look after a half-dozen or more fussy old hens, 
which are always untrustworthy and never pleasant 
to handle nor easy to manage; the chicks are all 
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