VII 
MY FAILURES 
My First Experience with an Incubator—My First 
Hatch—My First Experience with a Brooder. 
My First Experi- When I went into the 
eal poultry business, thirty- 
two years ago, for the 
first time, I had no experience with incu- 
bators and brooders. I thought, of course, 
that I had to have an incubator and 
brooder to get into the chicken business 
properly. Incubators were not so much 
used nor so well understood at that time 
as they are now. 
I commenced to make inquiry around 
the neighborhood to find out who had an 
incubator, and what my neighbors knew 
about incubators and brooders that they 
were willing to tell. If any of them knew 
anything about incubators and brooders, 
they did not seem inclined to want to tell 
it; but some of them, I noticed, looked 
very wise when I approached them on the 
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