ARTIFICIAL HATCHING AND REARING. 



Imitate Nature's Method — Both Eggs and Machine Should 



Be Aired — The Value of Sunlight — First Days in the 



Brooder — Feed Dry Food in Litter. 



By Anna L. Pinkerton. 



Having in mind the many queries that are constantly be- 

 ing put to me by beginners in the poultry business, I fancy 

 that a few words of advice to the amateur would not corhe 

 . amiss and all my remarks apply to the different Mgh grade 

 machines now upon the market with which I am familiar. 



Leaving technical terms and statistics alone I will at once 

 come to the point with advising the intending user of an 

 incubator to first of all take into consideration his sur- 

 rounding^ and climatic -condition's, before setting the ma- 

 chine, coiiditions being so different in various parts of the 

 country that it is impossible to make rules that would ap- 

 ply everywhere. 



Remember, always, the best criterion that can be taken 

 is the hen; find out the methods under which she is success- 

 ful and follow them as closely as possible when mnning 

 your incubator. Her methods combined with your own 

 ingenuity cannot fail to bring you success. 



Of course, everything depends upon the eggs and many 

 an incubator has beerv condemned as useless on account 

 . of the infertility of the article to be hatched. It is a good 

 thing to bear in mind that the incubator is only a medium 

 which, with moderate attention, is bound to produce good 

 results, and no workman, no matter how clever a mechanic 

 he may be, can do good work with poor tools. 



While running an incubator it is as easy to be over anx- 

 ious as to be careless and it will be well to bear in mind that 

 it is a far more dangerous thing to let the tempei'ature 

 within the egg chamber get too hot than it is to let it get 



