BEGINNING ARTIFICIAL INCUBATION 



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It may be because of lack of time, or it may be because 

 of lack of ability to handle details. In the case of most 

 Beginners, probably, this detail poultry work is added 

 to the "day's work" so that the worker does not have 

 a fair show. This means that he cannot give the poultry 

 a fair show, either. 



The Cornell Gasoline Brooder House at New Jersey Station ; One in Process 

 of Construction. Saves on Cost of Production 



Early in March, one year, a suburban Beginner de- 

 lightedly announced to me that she had an incubator 

 full of chicks ready to hatch. She wanted me to see 

 them when they came off. She was full of enthusiasm. 

 The actual hatch was twenty-two chicks, as I learned 

 later. A month later I asked about her chicks. Her 

 face fell. "All dead." The cause was white diarrhoea ; 

 a related fact, that she was using a second-hand incubator, 

 probably carrying the germs of the disease. 



