IN QUANTITY FOR MARKET. 39 



rous buildings, #75,000), his establishment for hatching chickens, 

 ducks or turkeys is to-day brought down to a very fine point, 

 assuredly 1 And the nicest feature of all is found in the fact 

 that, under his system, there is absolutely no limit to the quan- 

 tity of chickens that may be artificially produced and success- 

 fully raised, even in our uncertain American climate. 



We have always hitherto contended — and our experiments 

 have proved this to be true — that large numbers of domestic 

 fowls or chicks could not, ordinarily, be successfully raised or 

 kept under a single roof. In hundreds of known instances 

 other than our own a similarly unsatisfactory result has followed 

 the attempt to multiply fowls in the common way, or to hatch 

 and rear them profitably in large numbers among us, except 

 through " colonization," within prescribed limits. On page 10 

 of this work appears the statement that " Up to this time, in 

 the year of our Lord 1877, there is not existing, nor has there 

 ever yet been invented, an incubator, an eccaleobion, a hatching- 

 house, a hot-bed, or other contrivance of this character, in 

 France, England or America, that was practically worth one 

 sixpence in 'the hands of a novice for the, wholesale production of 

 chickens from fowls' eggs." But Mr. Baker is not a novice, 

 and his scheme has proved a magnificent success, verily, through 

 the facilities and appliances at his command at Cresskill, for the 

 invention of which he personally holds several patents of origi- 

 nal contrivances adapted to his purposes. 



Upon Mr. Baker's plan the thing is entirely feasible, perfectly 

 natural, eminently successful ; and we see no reason why any 

 man possessing the peculiar talent and taste for this business 

 which he does, and who has the means to carry out the details 

 as he has done, cannof raise domestic fowls by thousands, as 

 readily and as surely as we have ever raised scores or hundreds, 

 for, the market, as he has done and is now doing at Cresskill. 



But this wonderful triumph in Mr. Baker's case has been 

 achieved through brain-work, intelligent study, extensive knowl- 

 edge of mechanics, the skillful application of properly-created 

 and graduated heat or moisture, and by the liberal expenditure 

 of cash means. Therefore, Mr. Baker need have no concern 

 that he will meet with serious rivalry in his laudable undertak- 

 ing ill the present century. In our judgment, after a critical 

 examination of his system, his premises and the cost of this 

 huge enterprise, few other Americans will ever attempt to com- 

 pete with him in this business on the large scale he has done it. 



The illustration upon page 42 represents the exterior of the 



