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so that it was impossible to increase the pressure at 

 any time of the day or night, and the gas worked 

 most satisfactorily in incubation and brooding. 



The extensions on the Farm planned for 1910 were 

 a Cockerel House, for the housing of breeding cock- 

 erels, and the widening and lengthening of No. i Lay- 

 ing House. These alterations were made in No. i, so 

 that it was an exact counterpart of Nos. 2 and 3. 

 We also planned, as soon as the breeding season was 

 over, and the 1910 breeding pen was shipped to the 

 various buyers who had purchased these birds for 

 August delivery (and the entire pen was sold early 

 in 1910), to add another section to the Breeder House, 

 and to build a few more Colony Houses. Then we 

 built what we thought would be an adequate Office to 

 handle the business of the Farm, but which has since 

 proved large enough for only one quarter of the pres- 

 ent requirements. We increased the size of the Egg 

 Packing Room, and installed a freezer with a capacity 

 of over two thousand pounds of green bone. This 

 practically covers the enlargements on the plant for 

 1910. 



Adopted Hot Water Incubators 



For three years we had been investigating quietly 

 the so-called Mammoth Incubators, or in other words, 

 the Coal Heated, Hot Water Incubator, and before 

 the close of the hatching season of 191 1 we had de- 

 cided to install two such machines in a cellar 146 



