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BAISING FOWLS AND EGGS 



each man who understands the process takes charge of one 

 " oven," for about six months, successively, and through their 

 skilful management from 45,000 to 70,000 eggs are set at a 

 time, in each oven — to be hatched out by means of properly 

 applied and carefully conducted artificial (fire) heat. 



The Egyptian secret consists of two parts ; namely, that of 

 building these hatching-ovens properly, and that of causing 

 the immense number of eggs set in them to be regularly and 



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appropriately heated, night and day, as they would be if set on 

 by the hens. The results attained are similar to those reached 

 by the use of modern incubators, on a far lesser scale. The 

 knowledge which the Bermeans possess (and which they keep 

 so cautiously to themselves,) is that of so warming the eggs 

 continuously, for twenty-one. days, as to gradually unfold the 

 chicks within, and finally to hatch them ; the imf)orlant point 



