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the product of our own breeders, with eggs from 

 other sources, and this we did, buying eggs from 

 different breeders, in widely separated territories. 



As the hatching season advanced we added one 

 more incubator to our battery of ten, and we placed 

 in these incubators a total of eleven thousand eight 

 hundred and four eggs, of which two thousand and 

 ninety-six showed dead germs and clear eggs on the 

 fourteenth day test. 



The resulting number of chicks placed in the 

 Brooder House was five thousand eight hundred 

 and sixty-six for the entire season. 



We found that the eggs purchased did not proSuce 

 anything like the number of chicks, that is, strong, 

 livable chicks, that did the eggs coming from our own 

 breeding pen, which proved to us that the method of 

 feeding and caring for breeding stock, pursued by 

 others, fell very far short of the results gotten by our 

 own methods. 



We Count Only Livable Chicks 



The lesson of incubation, which it is so difficult to 

 make people understand, is not so much a question of 

 how many chicks may be hatched from a given num- 

 ber of eggs as of how many strong, livable chicks 

 are brought out. We very early in our hatching ex- 

 perience decided to count only those chicks, which 

 were strong, and apparently capable of a steady 

 growth and a sturdy maturity. Thus, the count of 



