SUCCESS IN POULTRY CULTURE 
enough time to get thoroughly warmed 
through; so I left it until the following 
morning, thinking that it surely would be 
ready for the eggs by that time; imagine 
my surprise when I went to the stable the 
next morning, with the expectation of 
finding the incubator ready for the eggs, 
on finding the thermometer, in the egg 
chamber, only a little higher than the day 
before; but that green sawdust was com- 
mencing to steam, so I still had hopes; 
day after day I cared for that machine, 
and still the temperature was not half-way 
up to the incubating-point; but I had up 
steam, for that green sawdust was steam- 
ing away, day after day, the days length- 
ening into weeks, still the old incubator 
was not hot enough; so one morning I 
turned the lamps unusually high, thinking 
that, perhaps, I had not been turning them 
high enough, and then went to my work 
in the field. When I came in at noon the 
first thing I did was to go to the old cow- 
stable to take a look at my incubator. As 
I approached the stable I saw an unusual 
light shining through the cracks; I quick- 
ened my step, and when I reached the 
stable and flung open the door I saw that 
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