97Q THE POULTRY 



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localities. Fancy poultry is a money-making 

 game for those who are successful in winning 

 prizes at the show, and getting well advertised 

 as breeders. The broiler business, seemingly 

 the most profitable branch, has in practice 

 been a source of loss to many investors. The 

 cause of failure in the broiler business, lies 

 chiefly in the difficulties of artificial incubation, 

 especially in the winter season. 



Incubation is to the chicken raiser what the 

 hot-bed is to the tomato raiser. If incubation 

 is a failure, the whole business must faU. For 

 the poultryman with a few dozen, or even several 

 hundred fowls, hatching with hens is to be rec- 

 ommended, unless he keep Leghorns or Minor- 

 cas; these varieties not being good brooders. 

 Convenient arrangements for setting hens in 

 large numbers will be a more successful invest- 

 ment than incubators. For duck farms or 

 Leghorn egg farms, or any poultry business on 

 a large scale, artificial incubation is a " neces- 

 sary evil." 



The Central Hatchery, only now being es- 

 tablished here, although in use in Egypt for 

 centuries, promises to solve this difficulty. 

 The advantage of centralizing the hatching 

 is that it admits of better methods than are 

 available on a small scale, and also allows one 



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