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should be collected frequently to avoid heating. If they are to 

 be kept more than two or three days before being set, it is best 

 to turn them once a day. There are revolving egg cabinets made 

 for this purpose (see Fig. 164), but equally satisfactory results 

 can be had by packing the eggs in an ordinary egg crate and turn- 

 ing it over gently from day to day. This is done to prevent the 

 yolk, also the germ, from gravitating to the membranous lining 

 of the shell and adhering to it. 



A little attention paid to the foregoing simple directions will 

 work wonders in the possibilities of hatching eggs, and will in- 

 sure much better results in the brooder. It is another applica- 

 tion of the doctrine of preparedness. 



