T7S MAKING POULTRY PAY 



It takes hens' eggs twenty-one days to hatch, 

 guineas' and ducks' twenty-eight days, geese and tur- 

 keys' twenty-nine to thirty days. 



Why Incubator Chicks Die — At the Rhode Island 

 experiment station, careful investigation has been 

 made of the cause of death of young incubator chick- 

 ens. It was alleged that about one-third of the chicks 

 had been more or less injured by uneven heat during 

 incubation. Another common cause of trouble was 

 in overcrowding of brooders, resulting in death by 

 suffocation, trampling, etc. Tuberculosis was found to 

 be very prevalent and fifteen per cent of the chickens 

 were more or less affected. For guarding against 

 this disease, it is recommended to give the interior 

 of the brooders all the sun and air possible on pleas- 

 ant days. Bowel troubles were a common cause of 

 death. Lack of animal food sometimes causes dis- 

 eases of the liver and gall bladder. 



The Incubator a Necessity — For the farmer's 

 wife, a large incubator is, or at least should be a 

 necessity, if she is living up to her opportunity in the 

 chicken business for profit. From 200 to 400-egg 

 capacity is the kind she needs. Sometimes, especially 

 early in the year, it is difficult to get enough fresh 

 eggs to fill one of the larger size, but with us very 

 few incubators are put to work, until eggs are getting 

 plentiful, as well as cheap. This lets you in on the 

 early market if you have good luck with your early 

 hatchings. — [Ida Shepler, Indiana. 



The best grade of kerosene should be used in both 

 incubators and brooders, for a poor grade clogs the 

 lamp and causes trouble. Between hatches the lamp 

 should be taken apart, the burner boiled out and a 

 clean wick put in. If the lamp gives too much heat 

 toward the end of the hatch, instead of turning it 

 down very low trim the wick to a sharp point. 



