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SUCCESS WITH POULTET 



thinking about the means of regulating an incubator, but 

 as a rule they are both simple and trustworthy. Not only 

 that, but we know from experience that properly fertilized 

 eggs will stand pretty rough treatment. We have only to 

 consider the hen's treatment of eggs to appreciate this. 

 Time and again we have had hens stay off their nests until 

 it seemed to us that the eggs could not possibly hatch. 

 They would then go on with the job and at the appointed 

 time walk demurely off, followed by from seven to a dozen 

 happy chicks. 



A few words more about the brooder. We have seen 

 chicks that were raised in a brooder in April and May walk 

 right away from those cared for by a hen during the same 

 months — chicks of the same age and both lots free from 

 lice. Every duck and chicken raised on our farm for several 

 years has been raised in brooders, and out of many thou- 

 sands we have not lost over four per cent from all causes, 

 Tiey grew rapidly and seemed to be entirely satisfied with 

 their lot. Chicks raised by hens during the same period 

 were fully one-fourth smaller and a larger percentage of 

 those entrusted to hens were lost. 



We strongly advise the use of incubators and brooders. 

 If you do not feel able to buy both this year, buy a brooder. 

 It will pay you and please you. Another year you will 

 want an incubator. Don't buy a brooder simply because it 

 is called a brooder.. Don't do that. Study the matter over 

 before you accept as pure gospel the magnified praise be- 

 stowed on any article that is offered for sale. In these 

 pages you will find a cut showing an up-to-date brooder 

 with perfect ventilating and heating system. 



It is costly, if not impracticable, to raise poultry on a 

 large scale by the aid of hens alone. The good incubator 

 makes this easily possible^— not for the men who have failed 

 at everything else they have tried in life — but for the men 

 who succeed as a rule with what they undertake. A man 

 can multiply incubators as long as his pocketbook holds 

 out. So he can hens, but -he cannot make hens sit when 

 they do not want to. All the king's horses and all the 

 king's men can not do that with the "ornery" hen. 



THE BEST INCITBATORS MJLNXJTACTUEED. 



Among the best few incubators manufactured at the 

 present time is the Old Eeliable, the machine that has been 

 used successfully for the poultry public for the last twenty- 

 six years, and it has probably done more than any other 

 machine to advance the methods used in artificial incuba- 

 tion. Ideas that were not thought of before the advent of 

 this machine on the market are now used by a number of 

 other manufacturers, a large number of whom are parties 

 who were at one time connected with the present manufac- 

 turers of the Keliable. This machine has been simple in con; 

 struction from the first, and every improvement that has 

 been added to it since first patented and placed on the 

 market, has been made with a view to simplify it both in 

 operation and for practical use. 



We shall confine our remarks about incubators to the 

 "Old Reliable," as we hardly think that a better example 

 could be furnished. Our purpose in introducing this incu- 

 bator here is not to advertise it, but to discuss perfect and 

 correct principles to be vised in an incubator, how to guard 

 against failure, and the case with which excellent results 

 in artificial incubation can be obtained with a, good in- 

 cubator. 



The real secret of the wide-spread success of Reliable 

 Incubators is the even "temperature imparted to all parts of 

 the egg tray through the 'entire hatch, which is due to the 

 elegant construction and arrangement of the heating ap- 

 paratus, which is most amply complete. The nearer all 



possible variation in the temperature of the hatching cham- 

 ber is overcome, the nearer it is to what is desired. Any 

 sudden or extreme change is naturally injurious to the eggs, 

 and causes that great difficulty of , chicks dying in the 

 shell more than any other feature in artificial incubation. 

 Especially is this true during the first week of incubation, 

 when the chick embryo is first taking shape. 



Another great . essential to success with an incubator is 

 to have the conditions in the hatching chamber uniform 

 throughout. In too many machines that are made njore 

 to sell than to hatch, three or four thermometers^ placed at 

 the same time in different parts of the hatching chamber 

 will show a variation of from three to ten degrees. This 

 condition of things is ruinous to good hatching. 



The regulating device furnished with the , Eeliable 

 Incubator is we believe, the most complete and trustworthy 

 and sensitive in existence. It will do just what and all that 

 is claimed for it. We herewith present an illustration of 

 the sectional view of the machine, showing the regulator, 

 jiist how it is connected, which, for simplicity certainly 

 cannot be surpassed. That it will do the work, we do not 

 believe we can give any better evidence than the fact that 

 we use it on our machines. 



This sectional view also shows how the Standard Reliable 

 Incubator is made, gives figures and information as to the 

 efltire construction upon which the Reliable Company holds 

 eight distinct and separate patents^ 



Grood value is put into all Reliable Incubators furnished, 

 and for twenty-six years past _ they have proven them- 

 selves a practical success in the hands of thousands of 

 purchasers. The testimonials which appear in this book 

 are only one of the many sources of the evidence of satis- 

 faction that these machines are giving. 



HOT WATER AND HOT AIR INCUiBATOES. 



The Reliable Incubator & Brooder Co., offers to .the 

 public this year, the best line of incubators and brooders 

 ever offered to the trade. Their latest styles of incubators 

 are made under their new patents, showing greater and more 

 valuable improvements over the old style machines than 

 ever before. They are making their incubators and brooders 

 on scientific principles, combining every advantage in 

 them that bring about the very best results. They have had 

 over twenty-six years experience continually testing differ- 

 ent ideas a,dvanoed regarding artificial incubation, and as 

 a result, are in a position to know, from experience, how to 

 hatch and raise the largest percentage of chicks, and what 

 is necessary to constitute a strictly first class, good machine. 



They make several styles of incubators- 

 First— The New Standard Reliable, both hot air and 

 hot water, with and without brooder combined. 



Second— The Reliable Bantling Hot Air and Hot Water 

 Incubators, with and without broodei combined. 



Also several styles of brooders, viz— The Indoor Hot Air 

 and Hot Water Style, the Outdoor Hot Air and Hot Water 

 style, and the Double Sectional Loop Hot Water Pipe 

 Brooder. 



They also manufacture and supply a Hot Water Heating 

 System. This system you will find herewith fully illustrated 

 and just as it can be furnished by them, and this system 

 can be adapted to almost any size brooding house. 



The question is often asked, "What is the best, hot-air 

 or hot-water machines?" Our answer is, one hatches just 

 as_ good as the other, the only difference is, should you by 

 neglect fail to fill your lamp or allow it to go out, the 

 Reliable Hot Water machine will keep up the heat from 

 6 to 8 hours, on account of the large body of water sta- 

 tioned over the tops of the egg chamber and surrounded on 



