IITOUBATING 



The time to start hatching White Leg- 

 horns, bred purely for egg production, is 

 about April 10th. If birds of this breed are 

 hatched earlier than April they will lay too 

 early, possibly in July or August. Then in 

 October or E^ovember they will molt and not 

 commence laying again until January per- 

 haps or even February. The period of high 

 prices for eggs is then almost gone. 



When I have been short of eggs for my 

 incubators early in the year, I have kept 

 them as long as twenty-one days in a 

 moderately cool room, at a temperature of 

 not less than 40° F. or more than 60° F., 

 turning them slightly every day, and have 

 had fairly good hatches. But the best hatches 

 are obtained from eggs which are not more 

 than seven days old. The eggs to be hatched 

 should be of not less than 2 oz. in weight, 

 and not more than 2^^ oz. Yery small or 

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