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INCUBATION. 



Of artificial incubation I may as ■well say at once I have had 

 no experience; therefore it Is a subject of which I do not presume 

 to write; but I cannot think that it is at all adapted to very small 

 poultry-yards, for it must entail primary outlay, endless trouble 

 and considerable expense. On large farms it may answer, or 

 ■with persons ■who are bitten with the poultry mania, love trying 

 everything new that they hear of, and have more money than 

 they know ■what to do ■with unless they indulge in some hobby 

 or hobbies to help them in making iiway ■with it. The invention 

 of the artificial incubator cannot be considered, however, as a 

 new invention, for as early as 1848 Mr. Cantelo, manager of the 

 Model Poultry Farm at Chiswick, brought out the "Cantelonian 

 Hydro-Inoubator," and shortly afterwards Mr. Rouillier inven- 

 ted another — an improvement on the one named. Since then 

 their name has been Legion. 



The old natural method of allowing the hen to sit on her eggs 

 and hatch out her small family is the only plan of -which I have 

 had practical experience, and as being an entirely natural process 

 I cannot but think it the best, especially for poultry-teepers on 

 a small scale. 



There are very many little matters connected -with eggs, and 

 hatching them out, ■which can only be learnt by much practice 

 and long experience of domestic fowls, 'their manners and habits. 



