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play in the runs, so that, with the swelling of the 

 wood from the moisture, there would never be a pos- 

 sibility of their binding. While the doors should 

 shut air-tight, their dove-tailed joints should so fit as 

 to allow their coming away without a particle of stick, 

 or jar, to the machine. 



Hot Water Machines Best 



When it had been fully determined by The Corning 

 Egg Farm to put in Hot Water Heated Incubators, 

 the capacity desired being about sixteen thousand eggs, 

 it was concluded to divide this capacity between two 

 machines. 



It was also decided to build an entirely new Incu- 

 bator Cellar, and the dimensions were 146 feet long 

 by 22 feet wide, 7 feet from the concrete floor to the 

 bottom of the floor joists, these latter being 12 inches 

 in width, making a full height to the floor of the 

 Brooder House overhead, 8 feet. The floor joists on 

 the under side of the floor of the Brooder House are 

 planed and painted white. The Cellar is constructed 

 of concrete blocks, made rock faced, and showing in 

 the interior of the Cellar. The two incubators are 

 also painted white enamel. 



So as to eliminate any question of the consumption 

 of oxygen by fire in the Cellar the heaters are placed 

 with a concrete block partition between them and the 

 incubators, the hot water pipes passing through this 

 concrete wall, and connecting with the incubators. 



