INCUBATION ON CORNING FARM 115 



placed in the Brooder House they generally snuff out, 

 and add to the list of mortalities. 



Set Incubators Toward Evening 



It is our belief that there is a best time in the twenty- 

 four hours in which to set an incubator. As a rule, it ' 

 requires about eight hours after the eggs have been 

 placed in the machine for it to come up to tempera- 

 ture. Therefore, if the eggs go into the chamber late 

 in the afternoon, and anything goes wrong with the 

 regulator, the eggs cannot have been in a detrimental 

 temperature for any great length of time before the 

 operator is making his first morning round. We ob- 

 serve the temperature in the egg chamber three times 

 a day as a rule, the first thing in the morning before 

 the eggs are turned; at noon, or a sufficient number of 

 hours after turning and cooling the eggs, allowing a 

 sufficient time to elapse for coming up to temperature ; 

 and again late in the afternoon, before the final turn- 

 ing for the day. At these hours of observation any 

 slight alteration of regulator, to meet changes noted 

 in the temperature, is, of course made. 



The Hot Water, Coal-Heated, Incubator is a great 

 step in advance, and these machines are now built in 

 sizes from twelve hundred eggs up. 



With the old style lamp machine, people who were 

 running a small plant did not need an Incubator Cel- 

 lar, but the Insurance Companies would not allow the 

 placing of an incubator in the cellar of a house with- 



